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ISSUE 10
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28 Resistance is
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Say good-bye to one-hour photo
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few mouse clicks away. We’ll tell you
how to color-correct, sharpen, and
all-around beautify your digital
images for flawless final results,
by David Reynolds
70 Play Override
witii Overdrive
FutRe
Get an eyeful of Apple's
latest hardware— including
the 8-inch, give-that-thing-to-
me-now Cube; a far less
fruity iMac line; and the new,
wrist-friendly optical mouse.
We’ve got more specs, pics,
and charts than you can
shake a stick at.
by The MacAddict Staff
42 Bess-Preof
Veur Mac
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your boss’s cologne in
your cubicle or finding strands of
your system administrator’s hair on
your Mac, it’s time go underground.
Learn how to secure, hide, encrypt,
and protect your Mac files and
email from evil, skulking eyes,
by Todd Stauffer
TONY DANZA won't
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We mix a cool new
controller with an old-time
favorite game and — after
the inadvertent addition of
Chemical X (well, actually
an intentional use of USB
Overdrive)— we’re all set to
blast some renegades,
by Ian Sammis
74 Stitch Scans
with Photoshop
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farm animals often produces results that look like
a patchwork quilt— each section tends to have its
own (unfortunately) unique look. Here’s how to put
the pieces back together,
by Joseph 0. Holmes
MOT SINCE PICASSO have
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example of Cubism!
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COVER CUBE,
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square, but he's
cool. He took the
cover photo.
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Rob gets secrets piped into him from the CIA through a transmitter
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16 Get Info
Microsoft is chipping away at the new Mac Office suite, and has
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shareware, droolworthy hardware, and Mac-incompatible gizmos
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26 Scrapbook
Without even the benefit of formaldehyde, we eviscerate an iBook
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68 Powerplay-
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How Bungle, the Xbox. and the G4 Cube Control Your Future.
L ast month in my editorial, I rambled
through a slightly overstated eulogy to
Bungie Software — makers of the hit
Macintosh games Marathon and Myth. At that
time, Microsoft had just acquired Bungie, and
I predicted that the gaming company was
probably going to leave the Mac for greener
pastures. The course of events sorely dated my
editorial by the time it reached your hands. At
Macworld E3q>o New York in July, Steve Jobs
made the announcement that Bungie’s new
game Halo would in fact be coming to the Mac.
You cheered. I slapped my forehead and
screamed, “D’oh!”
The future arrival of Halo on the Mac is, of
course, good news. The announcement got me
thinking about the Xbox, however, and while I
was sitting there pondering Microsoft’s upcom-
ing gaming console, Steve Jobs pulled back the
cover on the new Power Mac G4 Cube. I imme-
diately saw a parallel between the two devices.
Boxes and Cubes
What these two, seemingly unrelated platforms
have in common is this: They both t^e small
steps toward entirely new roles for computers.
Former Bungie vice president Peter Tamte elo-
quently summed up this sentiment in a recent
interview I did with him (see “Bounce Back,”
p68). He pointed out that Apple is one of the
few companies to realize that the average per-
son encounters some real, physical obstacles
in using a computer. Tamte offered Palm’s
PDAs as an example of a platform that has
thrived simply because it got the ergonomic
aspect of usage right. Both the Xbox and the
Cube likewise address physical hurdles that
stand in the way of computing ease.
...the average person ^
encounters some real,
physical obstacles in using
a computer. ^
Microsoft, like Sony, is trying to transition
the computer out of the office and into the liv-
ing room. With the Xbox, Microsoft is making
a device which users will lean back and enjoy
rather than sit forward and work at. The Xbox
is a gaming console, just like those Nintendo,
Sony, and Sega make — but at heart it’s also a
computer. It can surf the Internet and play
DVDs. In the future, Microsoft’s hving-room toy
Jeniter Morgan
Managing Editor
Qw What shape would
you like your mxt
computer to be?
A. A ruby-red, life-
size MIG- 17, only with
radar. Fd simulate
flight from apphcation to application,
crashing my system only when I messed
up a landing.
Q. In the future, where don't you want
computers?
A. Computers, like telephones, should
never be next to a toilet.
staff Bants ^
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could theoretically send and receive email, or
download MP3s to play via your home stereo.
Apple’s Answer
Apple, on the other hand, is approacliing
the physical limitations of computing from the
opposite direction. It is making machines with
so much personality, so much physical appeal,
that you will feel comfortable putting them into
situations where you would never have imag-
ined a Mac before. A computer that oozes wires
and takes up tons of space always reminds you
of work, so you instinctively keep it tucked
away in your office. But what if Apple made a
machine so small, uncluttered, and appealing
to the eye that you wanted to keep it on your
kitchen counter so you could check online
recipes while making dinner? The Cube is still
too expensive for such purposes, and other
limitations prohibit using it next to your
microwave — but the compact box represents a
significant step toward expansion of use.
As you look over Apple’s newest hardware
offerings (see “Resistance is Futile,” p28), you
may feel the temptation to complin about
missing PCI slots, absent audio ports, and
other shortcomings — but don’t lose sight of
the Cube’s real value. Clock speed and cache
systems will always play a part in the Mac, but
as we integrate computers into more and more
areas of our lives, we’re going to face bigger,
not strictly technological issues. When you
look at the Cube, think about Palm PDAs and
the Xbox — and realize that Apple has aheady
taken our beloved Mac one step further.
lanSammis
Associate Editor
What shape
would you like your
Ttexl computer to be?
A. Well, a sphere
would be a bad idea,
unless I cut a circular hole in
in which it could sit...so proba-
bly another Platonic solid. I think I’d go
for a regular icosahedron, so I could
paint numbers on it when it became
obsolete and use it as a 920.
Q. In thejuture, where don'tyoti mnt
computers?
A. In my underwear, in my food, and on
my belt, in that order.
Andrew Tokuda
Digital Media Editor
Qu What shape would
you tike yournext
computer to be?
A. Small, flat, and the
size of a credit card (I like
compactness)-— hooked up
to a 22-inch Cinema display.
Q. In the Juture, where dovtt you want
computers?
Am For decency’s sake, I’ll refrain from
answering that question.
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I just want to thank you all at MacAddict for
saving my almost lost soul. Thank you for
showing me the light — and I am dead seri-
ous when I say this, too. Oh, and uh...does
Max need a friend? And where does Max Hve?
And is Max real or is he just a cartoon?
— ^Amir Mikhak
WE THINK YOU’RE missing the
concept of getting mail on your Mac.
BUT WE LIKE BAGELS!
Has anyone else noticed the eerie visual sim-
ilarity between the G4 Cube and a toaster?
Could it be mere coincidence? A new ad
campaign (“The power to toast the competi-
tion,” “The greatest thing since sliced
bread”)? Or simply a side effect of using
fanless convection cooling witli a processor
that churns out a gigaflop per second?
— ^Mah Johnson
HOW WALL Street Journal.
PRETTY SKETCHY
Thank you very much for your tutorial on
how to use the color-dodge feature of Adobe
Photoshop to create msiges resembling pencil
sketches (“Sketch with Photoshop,” Feb/00,
p74). I took a picture of my G4, scanned it in
along with pencil strokes, and then sketched it
in Photoshop. — Cody Miller
^BectmiifSlgliieil — ® ^
M y husband is such a Mac addict
that he cannot bear to throw
away any Mac, even if it is not
functioning in the traditional sense.
-“Eden Kruger-Warn
THE COMPETITION is toast.
ARE YOU RELATED TO IAN
SAMMIS?
It concerns me that the image on the front
of the OS X box is a set of gears meshed to
form the letter S. In real life, if the first gear
were to turn clockwise, any other gear would
have to turn against the adjacent gear, causing
a grinding of teeth on a biblical scale! The
startup screen for ClarisWorks 4 shows a sim-
ilar nonworkable gear train. C’mon, whoever
turns out this artwork, think! The Mac com-
munity knows that the Mac works. Why not
show the same consideration for how you
present it to the pubhc? I feel better now.
— ^Dave Hanson
AND TO THINK WE GAVE
ITASPIFFY
I read your review of Who Wants to Be a
MiUionaire (Aug/00, p73). You said it wasn’t
too shabby, and I tried it in the store, so I
bought it. One of the questions in the game
interested me. It asked what name the cre-
ators of the Macintosh XL originally planned to
use. The answer is Lisa 2. However, if you ask
the audience, they choose the wrong answer!
For the one Macintosh question in the entire
game, the poll is wrong. I was disappointed.
— ^Nick Burgan-Ilug
U] Mac Addict \OC1/OQ
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ILLUSTRATION BY DAVID ROSS
THArS USING THE
OL NOGGIN
Sheesh, some people are already griping
about the Next... er... Apple G4 Cube. They say
it’s too expensive and not expandable
enough, and they question the wisdom of
putting out a product with no definable tar>
get market. Whine, whine, whine.
One can hardly accuse Apple’s G4 Cube
of lacking versatility. In fact, here are some
other purposes it can serve that I bet even
Apple didn’t think of:
• Tissue box.
• Soap dish.
• Wheel chock.
• Book ends (requires two) .
• Egg sheer (use the grate on top) .
• Impress your PC friends by showing
them how convenient it is to have to flip
over your computer to plug any device
into it.
• Just add a bulb and a shade, and you
have a new lamp.
• Cat food dish (turn it upside down) .
• Doorstop.
• Rubik’s cube for clueless people.
• Flower vase.
• Replacement for the Cable Ace award.
• Shoeshine stand for people with
small feet.
• Penholder for those pens with the really
huge feathers on them.
• Window prop for a hot summer day.
• Buy a bunch and stack ‘em up hke giant
overpriced Legos.
Thai should help Apple sell ’em!
— ^Nathan Strum
YOU’RE A LOON
I noticed that if you look cross-eyed at Mac
Dance Web site (http://www.themacmind
.com/macdance), as if looking at a magic-eye
picture, one iMac in the seventh row appears
to pop forward and an iBook appears to fall
backward. If you cross your eyes in the oppo-
site direction, this motion reverses. I was won-
dering if anyone else had noticed this or if I’m
just crazy. — ^E ric Steinliuf
BEEEHAAAVE!
I was a PC pusher for years, doing meaning-
less tasks on a meaningless machine, but I
have seen the light. My boyfriend introduced
me to my first Macintosh. At first I was shy,
an Apple virgin — I really didn’t know how to
get my Mac to its full potential. I saw a copy
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I have read every issue of MacAddict from
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that the August issue was the most interest-
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The August issue of MacAddict really
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Yov Know You're
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Office 2001 : A Mac Oiiyssey
Microsoft Shows Off New Mac Suite
A S part of its continuing commu-
nity service work to make up for
unleashing Word 6 on an unsus-
pecting Mac community, Micro-
soft has once again retooled its Macintosh
version of Office and is almost ready to launch
Office 2001 for the Mac (no, that’s not a
typo — ^they’re shipping Office 2001 in 2000).
The new Office contains updated and
revamped versions of the standard Office
fare — ^Word, Excel, and PowerPoint — as well
as a whole new apphcation: Entourage.
Think of the new Entourage apphcation as
a hybrid of Outlook Express and ffie old Claris
Organizer — ^not only does it handle email and
newsgroups, it also includes a complete
address book, calendar, and task hst. Benefit-
ing Palm users, Entourage will synchronize
with your Palm-based handhelds for easy
upkeep of contact and calendar information.
Office 2001 integrates Entourage throughout
the suite, allowing you to perform tasks such
as auto filling Entourage contacts into your
Word documents.
As for the more traditional Office apphca-
tions, Microsoft has added a slew of new fea-
tures, improved integration, and best of all,
made the apps more Mac-like. All new tidings
in Office 2001 include an improved Format-
ting Palette (the floating window that contains
most of the formatting commands); restruc-
tured template and cfip-art galleries with hun-
dreds of new choices; and a smaller, less
annoying bipedal Mac in the Help window. The
increased Macishness of Office 2001 comes
from a number of minor but cumulatively
significant improvements — the toolbars are
smaller and less overwhelming, the status bar
no longer blocks tabbed windows
the Finder, and there
is improved QuickTime
and Drag and Drop
support. In addition,
THE NEW BOX
DOUBLES as a CD
case. We hope you
didn’t want any
though!
because 2001 uses the
Appearance Manager for its
windows instead of rolling
its own. Office finally works
properly with extensions
such as Kaleidoscope.
Not all of the changes
in Office He in the software
itself, however. Microsoft
has redesigned the prod-
uct’s packaging, putting the
O) in a hard-shell, round, plas-
tic case that you can use to
hold other CDs. Like the iMac
that inspired it, the case is a
litde funky, but it’s pretty cool once
you get used to it. The product has
also received a whole new logo:
Instead of the somewhat long-
winded “Microsoft Office 2001 Mac-
intosh Edition,” Microsoft has a more concise
“Office:mac” logo. The name isn’t just sim-
pler — ^it actually fits on the tiny new box . — DR
TENTACLES sold separately.
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product’s introduction, but if you buy Microsoft Office 98 between
July 19 and October 19, 2000, you can get a free upgrade to Office
2001 (you’ll have to pay the $7.50 shipping charge, though).
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ALTHOUGH IT RESEMBLES
Outlook Express, Entourage
is so much more. It handles
contacts, tasks, and
calendar items, plus it
synchronizes with your
Palm. Who says Microsoft
can’t write great software?
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M urphy might as well add this amendment to his infamous law: Just \\ien youVe finished
spending your money to accessorize in existing iMac colors, Apple will introduce better ones.
A very unscien^c poll revealed that some manufacturers will add &e new ss^e, ruby, indigo and
snow hues to existing product lineups. Others won’t. But no matter — ^diis past summer’s Macworld
Expo proved that the original five fruit flavors are still going strong. Here are a few examples . — NR
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More Music
Two new MP3 players offer heaps o’ storage
W ith or without Napster, the MP3 craze isn’t likely to die anytime soon.
After a long year of legally encoding songs from your CD collection
(yeah, that’s it), those tiny htde Compact Flash or SmartMedia cards in your
portable MP3 players become more confiniug than a compact car on a group
date. Fortunately, the usual players in the MP3 business are working out
devices that can assuage (for a time) your storage craving.
Creative Labs (httpy/www.creative.com), fresh from its “Mac users have
money, too!” revelation last year, is planning to ship a new version of its
NOMAD MP3 player, the NOMAD Jukebox, late this summer. This $499 device
uses an internal 6GB hard drive to store a whopping 20 hours of music. I-JAM
Multimedia (httpyAvww.ijamworld.com) has taken a different approach — ^if
you’ve got a CD-R drive, you can bum a data CD hill of MP3 files, place it in the
$129 U-828 Compact Disc player, and hsten to around 10 hours of music.
Both of these new devices have their downsides.
Because the new devices use more traditional
storage formats, they’re potentially much more
susceptible to jarring than their predeces-
sors. Moreover, a hard drive crash
in die Jukebox could wipe out a
lot of music. Still, if the repeti-
tion of the same MP3 tracks is
beginning to get on your nerves,
one of these devices might be the
way to go . — IS
A 6GB HARD DRIVE LETS the NOMAD
jukebox live up to its name.
Two G4s not enough? Try 16!
W hile dual processors may sound Impres-
sive, particularly when the processors
have vector units like the Velocity Engine, they’re
hardly enough to replace a modern supercom-
puter. Fortunately, If your need for speed Is great.
Terra Soft Solutions (http://www.terrasoftsolutions
.com) sells a specialized version of Linux (Black
Lab Linux) that lets you connect as many G4
machines as you want into a single cluster.
Kai Staats, CEO of Terra Soft Solutions,
touted the flexibility, relatively low cost, and high
performance of G4 clusters— you get good
results for a fraction of the cost of a traditional
supercomputer. Moreover, as Staats puts it,
“When a supercomputer becomes outdated,
what do you do with it? Give it- to your kid to stick
in his basement? With a G4 cluster, you just take
It apart and give eveiypne in the lab a new G4."
At the moment, the Ingest known G4 cluster—
16 nodes— is housed at the Scatable Computing
Lab at Aimes National Laboratory in (owa.— /S
WITH SIX 500MHz G4s and two at 450MKz,
this Is a fast, fast machine.
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B en Bird has come up with a useful share-
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BTV Edit, a $25 widget that lets you view and
capture video from any Mac-compatible video
source, as well as edit, play back, compress,
and export video. BTV Edit also has a nifty
feature called frame averaging that can clean
up still video shots by averaging out noise
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vision tuner cards. You’ll need Mac OS 8 and
QuickTime 3.0 or later to use BTV Edit, but if
you’re playing with DV, you probably have the
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11 Capture Movie.
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tfIDEO CAPTURE, on
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ContPiiHep ConmiJpum
So many ways to control a game
W ith the advent of USB, Mac gamers suddenly have dozens of options available to us in
the way of controllers. Here are three of the more unusual ones . — IS
GRAVIS XTERMINATQR DUAL
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CONTROLS: 5 analog axes, 9 buttons.
WHArs STRANGE: The base is designed to sit on
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CONTROLS: 3 anaiog axes,
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WHAT'S STRANGE: You control
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motions difficult to execute.
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WHAVS STRANGE: This
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appeal to IKEA fans and
lefties— with the included Allen
wrench, you can reconfigure
it for left-handed use.
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Chatting with the Mac
A pple’s speech recognition software has
been an on-again, off-again proposition
since the company first Introduced this feature
with the AY Quadras back in 1993. In OS 9,.
it’s on again, if only as an optional install, (n a
cool twist, though, you can now use speech
recognition from within AppleScript, through a
program called Speech Listener.
If you don’t have speech recognition on
your system already, you can add it by clicking
the Customize button in the Mac OS Install
program that appears just before you actually
Install the system software. Make sure that
only the check box for English Speech
Recognition is checked. Click Install, and after
restarting you’ll have speech recognition
functionality, along with an application called
Speech Listener. Speech Listener does just
that, and lets you add listen for” commands
to AppleScripts. The little script below uses
“listen for” to ask whether or not you're tired.
A word of warning: Apple’s speech
recognition software has earned a reputation
for flakiness over the last seven years, and its
OS 9 incarnation appears to continue the
tradition. If yoii encounter
crashes, unstoppable Apple-
Scripts, or the like, we will
simply disavow all knowl-
edge of your actions. That
said. If you’re feeling brave,
have a good time!— /S
-Speech listener is an application provided by
-Apple to let you listen for speech
tell application "Speech Listener**
-the "Listen fof command listens for you to say
-one of the words in the list it first says the prompt
-string ("Are you sleepy?" in this case)
listen for {"yes", "no"} with -•
prompt "Are you sleepy?"
-the result is currently in result-lets move it to
-thestatement for safekeeping
copy the result to thestatement
-now we just need to find out which was said!
if thestatement = "yes" then
say "Take a nap!"
else if thestatement = "no" then
say "Great! Would you
like a nice game of chess?"
end if
end tell
HERE’S A LIHLE SCRIPT that will
ask if you’re tired.
FIND THIS
SCRIPT at
httpy/www
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Trickier monopolies, these days
S peeding tickets and parking fines aside,
justice can be a beautiful thing. Especially
when the target of that justice is the company we
love to hate: Microsoft. But besides the tingly
pleasure that we derive from seeing Bill Gates
get nailed, we’re also watching antitrust
history in the making. Although it’s tempting to
think that Microsoft is simply joining the ranks
of some of history’s most infamous monop-
olies — ^Standard Oil, American Tobacco, and
the like — ^there’s much more to it than that. In
bringing new life to the Microsoft Deathwatch,
the government is defining what it means to be
a monopoly in the era of technology companies.
During the Standard Oil and American Tobac-
co era, the sign of a monopoly was price-fixing,
and breaking up those companies was a rela-
tively simple matter of dividing up the monopoly
to create smaller competing companies. The
Microsoft case, though, has opened up the possi-
bility that monopolies can constrain technologi-
cal advances in an industry — a much more difQ-
cult standard to gauge than simple price-fixing.
According to Dan Wall, chair of the antitrust
department at Latham & Watkins in San Francis-
co, the Microsoft case morphed fi’om a simple
case about Microsoft's battle to oust rival
browser Netscape into a broader case about
Microsoft's attempt to hold on to its Windows
monopoly — sl no-no, according to the Depart-
ment of Justice. Ed LaRose, an attorney in
the antitrust trade regulation area at Trenam
Kemker in Tampa, Florida, believes that the case
hinges upon how the government should apply
estabhshed antitrust laws: "I think the challenge
nowadays, especially in the Microsoft case, is
how you apply those rules to a new industry,
one that is. . .based a lot on ideas and less on
hard assets."
As we go to press, it’s not clear which court
will hear Microsoft’s appeal. The Supreme Court,
when it reconvenes in October, will decide
whether it will hear the case. If it rejects the case,
Microsoft will head back to the Court of Appeals.
Once the justice system works out the venue,
Microsoft will have at least one more chance to
argue that it doesn’t deserve the penally meted
out to the great monopohes of the past. Regard-
less of the eventual outcome, though, we’ll cer-
tainly be following the proceedings with at least a
slighdy vindictive interest . — CL
HiB Micrini Wiitt CnmUiniiiii
JULY 1994
False Promises
Microsoft agrees in a consent decree to separate
Internet Explorer from Windows.
JUIY 19951
ilmiiul
' Bill Gates says to Intel execs: ‘This antitrust thing will blow over. We haven’t
changed our business practices at all.^
SPRING 1996
Threats
Microsoft accuses Compaq of promoting Netscape and threatens to cancel
Compaq’s license to sell Windows.
AUGU^1996i
Netscape Steftt -
The famous Netscape white paper, accusing Microsoft of antitrust actions,
reaches the Justice Department ‘
SEPTEMBER 1996
Reading Material
The government starts requesting Microsoft documents.
DECEMBER 1996 TO
: jANUARYT997
Oops
A Microsoft executive sends an email saying that Windows jntegmtfon is a
must in winning the browser war.
OCTOBER 1997
Not the Brightest Move
the Department of Justice says Microsoft violated the 1994 consent decree
and forced computer companies to integrate Internet Explorer with Windows.
DECilVIBER 1997
Direct Orders
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson orders Microsoft to offer a vemion of
Windows without Internet Explorer.
APRIL 1998
6o Janet, Go Janet
Janet Reno authorizes a federal antitrust suit.
AUaU|ri998 5
Gates#; Film
Bill Gates undergoes videotape depositions.
OCTOBER 1998
The Start
The antitrust trial opens. ,
FEBRUARY 1 893 :
Thfe-Fifiish ;
The main phase of the trial ends.
NOVEMBER 1999
Is That All?
Judge Jackson Issues a finding of fact that says Microsoft used its power to
stifle Innovation, reduce competition, and hurt consumers.
APSL iBP0 i
.Bteafeg Upipd to Do;
Judge Jackson rules that Micmsoft violated antru^te^^
Justice proposes breaking the company in two.
JUNE 2000
Movin’ On Up
Judge Jackson approves the breakup proposal. The case heads for the
Supreme Court,
OCTOBER 2000
To Hear or Not to Hear
The Supreme Court will reconvene and role bn whether it will hear the case.
If the Supreme Court refuses to hear it, Microsoft will head back to the Court .
of Appeals.
2000?
Resolution
Remember that the AT&T antitrust case spanned 8 years, and the IBM
antitrust case dragged on for so long (more than 12 years) that the
government no longer considered IBM a monopoly by the time the trial
ended. This thing is far from over.
20 MacAddlcnOCVOO
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THIS HANDY FOLDOUT module attaches to
your whiteboard, and poof! Anything you
draw on the board gets digitized on your Mac
I t’s hard to make a whiteboard
exciting, but Virtual Ink has done the trick
with Mimio, a device that digitizes what you draw and
puts it on your Mac. Just attach the folding capture arm to the
whiteboard, plug it into your Mac, and then outfit your dry-erase
markers with the included jackets to get started. Just think of the
possibihties — teachers, home office folks, and artists will love it!
Mimio has a host of even cooler tricks up its sleeve — many more
than we can fit here. Check out the Web site for more details . — DR
The ATEN UC-232 USB-RS232C Serial Converter
S ay you’ve got an old modem, a serial-based graphics tablet, or any
other moldering serial hardware — ^you’re probably in the market
for a serial converter. If a PC-using fiiend offered you an ATEN UC-232
USB-RS232C adapter (http://www.aten.com, $79 SRP), or if you just
found one for cheap at a garage sale, what could it do for you? Get it
up and running, and it gives you just what you need, without even
requiring the usual modem cable — the UC-232 ends with a standard
25-pin connector. But like so many other things in life, this adapter
doesn’t come with Macintosh drivers.
When the company told us that no drivers are available, we took a
peek at the adapter in the Devices And Volumes panel of the Apple
System Profiler (if you haven’t played with
- the Profiler before, look for it in
your Apple menu). Sure
enough, ATEN doesn’t
actually make the chip
set its converter uses —
the device identified
itself as coming from
Juture Technology Devices
International Limited. A quick
trip to that company’s Web page
(http://www.ftdi.co.uk)
revealed a set of alpha drivers
for the Mac OS. We installed
these, and promptly found
ourselves able to use the serial
port converter . — IS
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How to Remove QuickTime
T here are times when your QuickTime installation-due to disk
corruption, mischievous toddlers with an urge to demonstrate
their hand-eye-system files-Trash coordination, or those little green
men that no one can see but you— degrades to the point where you
just want to remove it all and start over again. Here’s how to wipe
QuickTime from your drive.
I Run the QuickTime installer. Click Continue, and the usual
software license will appear. Read it (or ignore it), then click
Accept. You should now be at a screen labeled Choose
Installation Type.
2 Select Custom Installation, click the Continue button, then click
another Continue button in the next dialog box that pops up,
which warns you that no other programs can run while the installer
does Its stuff.
3 In the pop-up menu at the top of the next window, choose the
Uninstall option at the bottom of the menu. Click the Uninstall
button in the lower-right corner. The Installer will dutifully remove
QuickTime from your system. You may get an error message saying
that It could not delete some files and/or folders because they were in
use. That’s OK— you can empty the Trash the next time you restart
your Mac.
4 Finally, open the Extensions folder inside the System Folder and
remove the Sound Manager extension. Your uninstall is now
complete, but you should reinstall QuickTime 4 (or an older version)
because some programs need the Sound Manager and may crash
if it’s missing.
This pearl of wisdom came from Apple’s Tech Info Library
at http://til.info.apple.com. Visit it today for tons of useful tips
and tricks.— DR
22 MacAddict OCT/00
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Draw Max Wlnneps
Fifty-one entered, but there could only be one-or five-something like that.
n our June 2000 issue, we offered a copy of Freehand 9 to the reader who send
us the best sketch of Max (“Draw Max! Win Freehand 9!”, Jun/00, p22.) You
made things tough on us — ^with more than 50 entries, we had to do some serious
decision-making. Thanks to many, many rounds of voting, we finally selected a
winner — Gary Planamento of Yorktown Heights, New York, will receive a copy of
Freehand 9- Four runners-up who made it to the final round of voting will receive
MacAddict hats and T-shirts. Thanks to all those who entered ! — IS
MARTY KNUTSON’S SUPERMAX gives
Max considerably more power than he
actually wields around here.
ART LUM’S ESCHER-INSPIRED PAIR
of Maxes bore the caption: “Max tries
to clone himself. What a rascal!”
, use IS
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THE WINNING ENTRY— we felt that Mr. Planamento’s minimalist
style accurately captured Max’s general look.
JEFF GREENLAND AND STEVE CRISPINI independently
arrived at very similar concepts for Max.
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A Tip to Spiff Up Your Sites
W hen you create thumbnails for your
Web page, you probably just shrink
your images in Photoshop. There’s a better,
way, though — first blur the full image (select
Blur or Blur More from the Filter menu),
then shrink it to thumbnail size using the
Image Size item from the Image menu. Final-
ly, apply a sharpen filter to the thumbnail.
(For large numbers of thumbnails, automate
the process using Photoshop’s Actions fea-
ture.) This does a much better job of pre-
serving detail than simply shrinking the orig-
inal would do.— JOH
THIS SHOT, minimized simply using Image
size, is somewhat blurry and indistinct.
BY BLURRING FIRST and sharpening
later, we get a much sharper thumbnail.
24 1 MacAdd/cf 1 OCT/00
PHOTOGRAPHS BY IAN SAMMIS
Digital Image
Management
Image
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by David Reynolds
A
year ago this summer, Apple ip^oduced the iBook, To wish it a happy first birthday,
we decided to delve into thd^^'v^k’s innards and show you what makes it tick.
AirPort Connector
This small metal end plugs Into an AIrPort card,
which sits under the wire bail and rests on the
metal tray above~the one just below the Apple
logo on the display. (We've removed the tray to
show the RAM slot below.)
The iBook’s Ethernet hardware
address (a permanent, hard-
coded network address) appears
here for your easy reference—
not that you’ll ever need it.
Here’s a sight iBook owners have to
face sooner or later: the iBook’s RAM
expansion slot. You should fill this
with another RAM card as soon
as possible.
Plugging In
The IDE hard drive sits in a metal cage,
waiting for an upgrade to a more
roomy— and reasonable— hard drive.
Lots of warnings accompany this
gadget, just In case you were thinking
about making additions yourself.
The iBook’s keyboard connects to the motherboard just
below the RAM expansion slot. If you ever need to
remove the keyboard, this is where you can gently
detach It. Careful, though— those wires are fragile.
Easy Instructions
In case you don’t know howto install
an AirPort card, you’ll find instructions
printed in petroglyph form on top of
the CD-ROM drive.
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as I MacAddlct] OCT/00
OCy 00 [Mac Addict \29
E very Mac addict knows that what makes Apple computers
different from PC hordes is the fact that they have..,well,
personality. The original Mac was the first computer that
you could actually carry with you. It defivered the accessible,
powerful Mac graphical interface — ^and in an industry marred
by esoteric conflicts, techno-babble, and obscure line
commands, the original Mac was one of the few computers that
people actually enjoyed using. The inventors of the Mac loved
their creation, and the people who used Macs cherished them.
For a while there, however, Apple teetered on losing the
intangible personality of the Mac, The product line had become
nothing short of baffling. Utterly random numbers such as 1400,
6116 , and 8500 described distinct Mac models. To understand
which machine was right for you, you had to digest information
about three processors; understand the relative merits of Nubus,
PDS, PCI, and Comm slots; and decide between SCSI and IDE
bus systems. In a quest to maintain isolated internal innovations
at a PC-industry pace, Apple lost its bearings. The Mac was
becoming a machine that Apple’s engineers, designers, and
programmers squabbled over and that users didn’t understand.
The personality is back Apple’s head-turning new desktop
line has all the pizzazz and simple elegance of the original Mac if
not more. With smooth surfaces, elegant colors, and intricately
matching components, these clutter-reducing, space-saving,
drool-inducing machines are once again the products for
passionate people, for those who want more than a mere office
tool. With stunning attention to detail and a big-picture
approach, Apple is once again making computers deserving of
your adoration. Hip through the next few pages at your
pocketbook’s own risk, ’cuz you want one of these new
Macs when you’re through.
PowiiPMac*
P erhaps you like Apple’s compact, transparent, potent
new Power Mac G4 Cube because of its looks, power,
and quiet elegance, but we like it because of die vast
volume of jokes to which it lends itself. Borg collective jabs,
anyone? Snickers about Steve Jobs reviving the cube?
How about an elaborate toaster comparison? Or our
personal favorite: a quip about its resemblance to a box of
Kleenex, which you mi^t need after you first get your hands
on the Cube.
Wisecracks aside, probably the first response you have to
Apple’s graphite-and-transparent supercomputer is to
wonder, “Is it for me?” At $ 1 ,799 for the low-end model,
Apple dropped the small polyhedron (9.8 inches tall by 7.7
inches wide by 7.7 inches deep, at 14 pounds) smack in the
middle of the G4 price range. Our best answer to your
question is that if you’re already mumbling, “Man, I gotta get
one of those things,” under your breath, you know the
answer. If you need PCI slots, or just want a second
processor for beating on Photoshop, you should opt for a G4
tower. But the Cube’s small footprint, quiet demeanor, and
silky-smooth, futuristic looks make it delectable for anyone
who wants a really attractive, space-saving computer with a
bit more power and screen flexibility than an iMac —
complete with a DVD-ROM drive that pops discs in and out
of the top. Here’s a tour of Apple’s httle giant. Get ready to
start mopping up the drool.
Speakers
A pair of clear, plastic orbs of sound accompany every
Cube sold. Built by Harman/Kardon, which also gave
us the iSub, these USB all-digital balls provide the only
sound coming from the Cube.
Handle
USB becomes all the more critical on the
Cube, as Apple has ditched the audio-in and
audio-out ports. The Cube comes with the
Harman/Kardon USB speakers, but if you
want to do any recording, from a new alert
sound to a hit song, you’ll need some sort of
USB or FireWire audio-in device.
Power
To save space, Apple moved the power
supply outside the Power Mac Cube, as In
the PowerBooks.
Apple Display Connector and
VGA port
Apple’s all-new monitor connection system
means you don’t need a power cord for your
new Apple-manufactured display. But it also
means you need a port like this one. Luckily the
Cube also has a VGA port for those of us with
older monitors.
Just push down on this bar and the
Cube’s handle pops up, allowing you to
pull out the core. You can easily secure
this handle with a Kensington lock to
prevent unrequested upgrades.
Modem
Every Cube gets Its own 56-kbps modem.
Ethernet
The standard Cube comes with
10/100Base-T Ethernet, but you
can upscale to gigabit Ethernet
through the Apple Store.
Reset Switches
We wish you didn’t need to
know where the reset switches
are, but when you have to
force your machine to restart,
you’ll appreciate these guys.
FireWire
With the requisite two FireWire ports, the
Cube easily connects to scanners,
CD-ROM burners, and FireWire-equipped
DV cameras for video editing in iMovie 2
(which comes free with the Cube).
30 Mac Addict \OCy 00
RAM
Thanks to the elegant pullout design, you can easily
upgrade the Cube’s standard but somewhat meager
64MB of RAM to 1.5GB.
Processor
A 450MHz G4 provides the brains behind the Cube, but
power zealots can go up to 500MHz through the Apple
Store. The processor comes on a standard
daughtercard— we don’t want to be the
first to attempt an upgrade, though.
PCI Slots?
Nope, no second monitors,
superfast SCSI, or PCI-based TV
tuners for this puppy.
Graphics
A special (shortened) Rage 128 Pro graphics card fills
the Cube’s 2X AGP slot. 3dfx has announced that the
company will also support the new Apple Display
Connector, but there’s no word yet on the compatibility
of Display Connector cards with the Cube.
Heat Sink
Apple hardware VP Jon Rubinstein
told us you “start with the heat sink
and go from there.” The fanless
cube is essentially a computer
wrapped around a sizable heat sink.
Hard Drive
The Cube features an Ultra ATA^66 hard
drive. The standard size is 20GB, but you
can go up to 40GB at the Apple Store.
AirPort
Every cube comes ready for AIrPort. Ceramic disks on the
sides of the box inductively couple to the core’s AirPort
antenna, amplifying the signal.
Bleamiiig llie Cube
B oth standard Power Mac G4 Cube configurations come with
lO/lOOBase-T Ethernet, a 56-kbps modem, an ATI Rage 128 Pro
graphics card, a slot-loading DVD-ROM, and a pair of crystal-clear
Harman/Kardon orb-shaped USB speakers.
Model
450MHz Power Mac G4 Cube
500MHz Power Mac G4 Cube*
Price 1
$1,799
$2,299
Processor |
450MHz G4
500MHz G4
ram|
64MB (expandable to 1 .5 GB)
128MB (expandable to 1.5GB)
Hard Drive 1
, 20GB
30GB
^available through the Apple Store only
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Powep Mac MP
N ot quite as overhauled as the Macs or as
shockmg as the Cube, the love-handled
tower Power Mac G4 nevertheless also got a
bit of attention in Apple’s latest round of updates. The
biggest boon is, of course, the addition of a second
G4 processor in the 450MHz and 500MHz models at
no extra cost. The other major addition is an across-
the-board jump to gigabit Ethernet.
While it certainly sounds impressive to have two
G4 processors at your fingertips, the reality of current
Mac multiprocessing is a bit less thrilling. To start with, only a few
programs currendy take advantage of multiprocessing — Adobe
Photoshop and Casady & Greene’s Soundjam are the most notable.
Sure, the ability to encode CDs to MP3 faster than your CD-ROM drive
can deliver the information may seem enticing, but the G4’s new multi-
processing capability doesn’t provide the versatility one might expect.
Owners of dual-processor Macs will really start to see the power of
these machines after Mac OS X arrives in public beta this September.
Apple’s new operating system will use multiple processors intuitively
(for more, see “All about Multiprocessing,” below).
two
processors in this thing.
MoreG4s
T he new standard configurations for the Power Mac G4 Ethernet. Also note that none of these configurations comes
tower all include an ATI Rage 128 Pro graphics card, a with a built-in Zip drive. Additional build-to-order options
56 -kbps built-in modem. Ultra AEA/66 hard disks, and gigabit include a Zip drive ($80) and an Ultra SCSI PCI card ($49) .
Model 400MHz Power Mac 450MHz Power Mac 500MHz Power Mac
Price 1
$1,599
$2,499
$3,499 ^
1
Processors |
One 400MHz G4
Two 450MHz G4s
Two 500MHz G4s
1
RAM 1
64MB (expandable to 1 .56B)
1 28MB (expandable to 1 .5GB1
256IV1B (exDandable to 1 .56B) I
Hard Drive |
20GB
306B
40 GB
dvdI
^DVD-ROM
DVD-RAM
DVD-RAM
- -- - -- •
All alwiit MulthirocessiBg
A lthough you’d think two G4 processors would make a Mac run twice
as fast, that’s not necessarily the case. To give you the complete scoop
on multiprocessing computers, here’s theMwil^/c^list offirequenfiy
asked questions — ^and answers — about multiprocessing.
What programs run faster on a multiprocessor Mac?
When it comes to multiprocessing, you can divide programs into three
categories: single-threaded, multithreaded, and multiprocessor-aware.
* Single-threaded programs (usually games) can only perform one task at
a time — ^that is, they run in a single thread. They will not run any faster
under two processors in either Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X.
• Multithreaded applications can perform several tasks at once. They split
their tasks into several threads, which the computer runs simultaneously.
Most Mac apps these days are multithreaded. Mac OS 9 can’t move these
separate threads onto different processors, but if programmers Carbonize
apps (make them Mac OS X-natrve) , Mac OS X will know how to spin off
the threads onto the least busy processor,
• Multiprocessor-aware applications, specifically written to use multiple
processors, know how to divide up tasks and hand them to the least busy
processor. These apps (assuming they’re Carbonized) will run faster under
both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. That list includes Photoshop, Soundjam, and,
believe it or not, ColorSync, which uses multiple processors to process
matching algorithms.
How much of a speed boost will I see?
In a best-case scenario (say, a multiprocessor G4 running Photoshop),
you’ll probably see about an 80 percent speedup. With other apps, you
might see a boost anywhere fi’om 0 percent (in MP-unaware applications)
on up — stopping short of 100 percent. The reason multiprocessor-aware
apphcations can’t get a 100 percent speed increase is that the system needs
some overhead for coordinating processor activity.
Is a G4 with two processors faster than a 1GHz Pentium Hi?
Yes — ^but only under special circumstances, such as wlien you’re running
a program that understands multiple processors and takes advantage of
AltiVec (for instance, Photoshop) . Ofterwise, you probably won’t see any
speedup, simply because the app isn’t making fiill use of the second
processor. Under Mac OS X, though, that will change — ^the system takes
charge of using all the processors as efficiently as possible. Then a
dual-processor G4 under Mac OS X will probably run faster than a IGHz
Pentium under a greater variety of circumstances.
Are these Apple’s first multiprocessor machines?
Nope. Back in 1996, i^ple released the Power Macintosh 9500/180MP,
which had two 180MHz 604e processors.
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S hipping with every new desktop Mac, Apple’s optical mouse
is an eerie sight in the dark with its dim red li^t gleaming
through the translucent casing. With optical tracking, a tiny
camera images a red LED (hght-emitting diode), illuminating the
surfece directly below the mouse. A DSP (Digital Signal Processor)
then compares each frame to the previous frame, and figures out in
which direction the mouse is moving. The two frames must have
appreciable overlap — ^whip the mouse along frster than 14 inches per
second, and the cursor flies off randomly. The “button” consists of the
Move over Intellimouse Explorer— Apple’s new optical mouse is
translucent and glows red.
mouse’s entire top surface, except for two dimples on the sides that
allow you to lift the mouse. A wheel on the bottom sets the amount of
force necessary to generate a click. Alone, the optical mouse costs $59.
EKtenJad Kei/liiiapd
W e knew it had to happen one day: Our litde iMac
keyboards have finally grown up (sniff). Apple
Extended Keyboard fans, rejoice — ^the new
keyboard has a full-size inverted T including cursor
keys, all six special buttons (including Forward Delete and
End), and a M row of FI to F15 function keys. Apple has also
added four new buttons that allow you to control volume up, volume
down, mute, and CD ejection from your keyboard. The keyboard has one
notable absence, though — ^this is the first Apple keyboard since the Macintosh
n that lacks a Power key Instead, Apple has moved the Power button to the
monitor. The new keyboards come standard with the entire new desktop line,
but you can buy it separately for $59 from the Apple store.
108 keys, but no
Power button.
Apple seems to love the
retrofuturlstic TV look.
New Monitors
f you bought a Mac just before Apple’s recent Macworld Expo announcements, you
may want to sit down before you read this. As it turns out, you’ll need to buy a new
Mac or graphics card (not available yet) to use any of Apple’s new displays. Apple
has scratched the standard 15-pin VGA monitor connectors in favor of the custom
Apple Display Connector (ADC), which carries video, power, and USB in one cable.
Unfortunately at the moment there’s no way (short of a hack) to hook one of these
new beauties to an older Mac without replacing your graphics card (3dfe has already
announced plans for ADC support) .
The new line includes a 17-inch CRT-based Apple Studio Display a 15-inch
LCD Studio Display, and a new version of Apple’s holy-crap-I-never-imagined-a-flat-
screen-that-big 22-inch Cinema Display Now based on Mitsubishi’s Diamondtron
technology, the CRT provides a clean, ruler-flat screen; as before, it uses ColorSync to
maintain color accuracy as the phosphors age. The two LCD screens resemble their
previous incarnations.
Monitop Madness
Afl Apple displays come with a two-port USB hub and an ADC connector.
Model
17-inch Apple Studio Display
15-inch flat-panel Apple Studio Display
Price
$499
$999
Size
17-inch diagonal
15-inch diagonal
Viewable
16-inch diagonal
15-inch diagonal
Technology
Mitsubishi Diamondtron
Flat-panel LCD
Maximum Resolution
1,600 by 1,200
1,024 by 768
$3.999
1,600 by 1,024
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{Mac
O n its second anniversary, the iMac line went from
yummy to smart. No longer can you get the fruity
melange of colors known as blueberry, lime, grape,
tangerine, and strawberry Instead, Apple opted for the
classier graphite route with the fall L.L. Bean-esque hues of
indigo, ruby, sage, and snow (just make sure you don’t use
your snow Mac before Memorial Day). The graphite DV
Special Edition remains intact as part of the Mac line.
If colors don’t turn you on, perhaps the new pricing
will. Apple has upped the iterations of the machine from
three to four (now featuring an Mac DV+ category), and
has dropped its plain old entry-level Mac to $799 — the
lowest price ever for an Apple desktop computer. That
means you can get Macs ^ around for every kid,
parent, and pet in the family without breaking the
bank. Now that is cool.
Click your ruby iMac three
times and say, “There’s no
place like home.”
Hie Best Videe fer the Buck
I n an effort to drive home the point that its
Mac line is a Mck-ass consumer DV
editing app, Apple offers what it calls
Theater Mode in the new Mac line. Theater
Mode is a Monitor control panel preference.
When turned on, it enhances the quality of
M-screen video by increasing brightness up
to three times and improving color satura-
tion. QuickTime 4.1,2, Apple DVD Player
2.2,1, and Movie 2 automatically enable
Theater Mode. Now, if only DV cameras
didn’t cost as much as the computer itself...
What IMac CoIop Are You?
icking the right color for a sweater or nail pohsh is difficult
enough, not to mention finding the Mac color that suits you best.
After all, you wouldn’t want to buy the snow Mac and then discover
that the white washes you out. So before you commit an Mac fashion
faux pas you’ll live to regret, check out our chart. We’ve picked the
best Mac colors for you based on your color type, as defined by Color
1 Associates (http://www.dressingsmart.com), an international image
and style consultant.
Characteristics
Color Type
Your Best Colors
Celebrities with Your Color Type
The iMac(s) for You
^ Dark brown or black hair, ivory to
olive to dark brown skin tones
Light Bright
Bright, bold, vibrant
colors
Jacqueline Kennedy, Connie
Chung, Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Ruby
Goiden blond to brown hair with
golden highlights, ivory to dark
brown skin with goiden tones
Gentle
Bright yet delicate
colors
Hillary Clinton, Marilyn Monroe,
Courtney Love
Snow
Blond to fairiy dark brown hair and
some redheads, ivory and pink
beige to dark brown skin with
pink tones
Muted
Toned-down,
subdued colors
Gwyneth Paltrow, Jodie Foster,
Jane Pauley
Sage
Blond to black to red hair, ivory
beige to golden beige to olive to
dark brown skin tones
k ^
Contrast
Slightly toned-down
colors
Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey,
Kathie lee Gifford
Indigo, Graphite
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Indigo, ruby, sage, graphite, snow...do you feel like you’re buying a sweater?
A ll iMacs come with lO/lOOBase-T Ethernet, 56-kbps internal modem,
an ATI R^e 128 Pro graphics card, Ultra ADV hard drives, and the
new keyboard and optical mouse. All three DV editions come equipped with
FireWire, the all-new iMovie 2, and VGA ports for video mirroring.
Model iMac iMac DV iMac DV+ iMac DV Special Edition
Price
$999
$1,299
$1,499 ^
Processor |
350MHz G3
400MHz G3
450MHz G3
500MHz G3
RAM 1
. 64MB
64MB
64MB
128MB
Hard Drive |
7GB
10GB
20GB
30GB
CD/DVD 1
CD-ROM
CD-ROM
DVD-ROM
DVD-ROM
FireWire-Equipped |
: No
Yes
Yes
Yes
AirPort-Ready j
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Colors 1
IBBl
Indigo and ruby
Indigo, ruby, and sage
Graphite and snow
; ^ ^ J
HMovie 2: TMs Time, ITs Pepsonai
■ Movie isn’t just for Macs anymore — ^Apple has revved its plucky
I consumer DV app to version 2 and is now preinstalling it across the
I entire desktop hne. The already spoiled owners of a new Mac not only
get the program for free, but will also be the very first to get their hands
on iMovie 2, which features new audio and visual effects capabihties, a
refined interface, and a range of new editing features.
Among the additions to Movie’s video editing repertoire are the
abihty to change the speed and
direction of video clips and make
them go faster, slower, or even play
in reverse, as well as the abihty to
separate audio from video tracks
for layered audio and video
interaction. That means you can
replace the video in one section of
your movie wdth another chp while
maintaining the audio from the first
video — creating a rich voice-over
effect in a scene.
Other improvements to Movie
include new filters such as Sepia
Tone, which lends your video an
aged-photograph, fight brown,
monochromatic feel; Soft Focus,
which reduces sharpness; and Black And White for turning it into an old
film-noir-stjde flick. Additionally, you can now restore trimmed clips;
adjust video color, contrast, and brightness; control the speed and
direction of transitions; and preview dips through your DV camera as
you can in Apple’s Final Cut Pro.
Interface improvements indude an expanded clip palette, which
lets you load as many video dips as you wish, as well as a better-
integrated navigation system for
flipping easily from the dip palette to
the Titles, Effects, Audio, and
Transitions palettes.
Unfortunately, you can’t get Movie
2 for free via the Apple Web site, as
with the original Movie. Instead, the
Apple store wfll make it available for
purchase and download for $49
starting in September. The
recommended system requirements
for Movie 2 are a bit steep — a
300MHz or faster G3 or G4 processor,
64MB of RAM (128MB
recommended), Mac OS 90.4 or later,
QuickTime 4.1.2 or later, and, of
course, a DV camcorder with FireWire.
The MacAddict staff is currently resting comfortably in a hospital room.
OCT/00 MacAddictl^S
Create your own
digital photo
lab at home and
start making
perfect prints
by David Reynolds
illustration by Cberie Bonder
D on’t tell anyone,
butfaMngaphoto
is the easy part-
getting itto/oofc
good is the reai
adventure in pain. If you go the
digital route, digital cameras
are prone to pixilation,
shortened dynamic range,
color shifts, and exposure
problems. Even if you take
pictures with a regular
camera, you still have to scan
the photo, which presents its
own set of problems, as
scanners often produce
slightly muddy, somewhat
blurry digital images. Throw in
the variable of printing your
photos on an inkjet, and you
have a headache waiting to
happen. But don’t despair just
yet— there is hope.
Printing your photographs
at home on an inkjet can
produce spectacular results—
almost indistinguishable from
35mm prints— plus it gives
you control over the final print.
If you correct your photos’
flaws with image editing
software and select the right
printer and paper, you’ll
produce prints good enough
to put one-hour photo shops
six feet under. Well, OK,
maybe they won’t be that
great— but following these
steps will produce
professional-looking results.
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TpueColops
W e’ll assume you have the photos you
want to work on digitized and ready
to go, \Aether you’ve taken tliem with
a digital camera or scanned them in. Now you
want to use an image-retouching program to get
your pictures primed for printing. Here we’ll use
Adobe Photoshop ($599, httpy/www.adobe
.com) , although you can apply these tips to any
good image-editing program.
The first step toward crafting a perfect print
is to tweak the color of your image. Although
today’s digital cameras offer much better color
reproduction, most digital photos can benefit
from a little color tweaking. Scanners, too, can
cause problems, adding an unwanted color
shift (a color cast) to scanned photos. Either
way, the following method will give your photos
better color. Just remember that color
correction is more of an art than a science —
sometimes it comes down to opening dialog
boxes and playing with controls to see what
looks best. If you’re particularly interested in
experimenting, you should use Photoshop’s
Adjustment Layers function to put each of your
changes on its own layer, leaving the original
photo untouched in case you make a mistake
or don’t like the results of your changes.
STEPONE: Set Levels
O pen your image in Photoshop and
select Levels from the Adjust
submenu in the Image menu. You’ll
get a dialog box where you can set and adjust
your image’s black point, white point, and
midtones. We’ll set the black point first, then
use the same technique to set the white point.
Double-click the black eyedropper (under the
Auto button) to bring up the Color Picker
window. Enter a low value in the R, G, and B
boxes in the lower-right comer — ^we chose 5
because 0 looks too black, causing your
printer to spit out a lot of ink, (This nmnber
sets the value of black; in this case we’re
setting it to a very, very dark gray) , Click OK
and, with the black eyedropper still selected,
click the blackest part of the image.
Photoshop will reset that pixel to the value you
entered in the Color Picker, then bring the rest
of the image in line with the new black point,
properly adjusting darker colors and
improving the image’s contrast.
The Levels dialog box features three
triangles — black, gray, and white — ^located
on a shder along what looks like a cross-
section of a mountain. By sfiding these
triangles back and forth, you can sometimes
correct contrast problems in an image. The
gray triangle in the center sets the image’s
gamma, which is like the Continental Divide
of digital images. Moving it to the left will
lighten the midtones of the image, while
moving it to the right will darken them.
Once that’s done, continue with the white
eyedropper: Double-click it; set the R, G,
and B values to a number just under the
maximum setting of 255 (we chose 250);
close the Color Picker; then cHck the whitest
part of the image with the eyedropper. This
sets the pixel you just selected to white and
Setting the
black level
adjusts darker
colors and
contrast— in
this case,
we’re using a
section of the
black pants.
Although
adjusting levels
can only do so
much, it can
bring a muddy
foreground to
life (right).
adjusts the highhght colors accordingly. Of
course, we ignored our own advice by setting
our whites against the whitest part of the
foreground. Because we shot Ms image
under a canopy, the camera read the lighting
outside the slating rink, making the image
too dark. By selecting the whitest area inside
the link, we can adjust the white levels and
light our subject properly. Of course, this
makes the background a bit overexposed, but
we decided that seeing our subject clearly
was the more important consideration.
overexposes
the background
a bit, but puts
our subject in
a better light.
We’ve chosen
to set our
whites against
the wall of
the skating
rink— this
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STEPTWO: Set Color Balance
By tweaking the
image’s midtones
and highlights,
we can make
the colors look
as close as
possible to the
original hues.
D espite the improvement you get from
setting an image's black and white
points, sometimes the color remains
a bit off. That’s when it’s time to dig into the
Color Balance dialog box. With your image
open, select Color Balance from the Adjust
submenu of the Image menu. Here you can
adjust the amount of color in the shadows, the
midtones (the midrange areas) , and the
highlights (the brightest areas) of your picture.
This particular image has a yellow cast in the
highlights and a tad too much red and magenta
in the midtones. To look for color casts, check
the subject’s skin tones as well as any areas
that should be white but aren’t.
To correct our color problems, we put a
touch of green and cyan into the midtones
(a setting of -10 for cyan and +10 for green
does the trick) to counteract the red and
magenta. We then added a little blue to the
highhghts to counterbalance a shght yellow
tint in the ice. Adjusting color balance gets a
bit tricky because there’s no real formula —
it’s really about pleasing the eye. Just
remember that you’re using these controls
to balance two colors; if you see too much
of one, you can just move the slider away
from that color to correct it. You can either
enter numbers into the three color vector
boxes, or adjust the sliders. Click OK, and
keep checking your preview as you make
adjustments until you attain a color that
looks good to you.
Although the
cold weather
added a bit of
magenta to our
subject’s cheeks,
they weren’t
really this rosy.
That’s why we
need to adjust
the color
balance (right).
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For those of you used to converting your photos to CMYK to send to n four-
color press, leave the image in the RGB color 55>ace for home printing and
fot your printer’s driver handle the conversion to CMYK. Jtf yo the
conversion in Photoshop, you may get an unwelcome color shift and muddy tones.
The left is simulated RGB; the right Is CMYK. Notice the difference in color? Most
Inkjet printers do CMYK conversion without your help, so leave your Image in RGB.
If you’re having trouble detenuimn
what’s white and what’s hlack^ hold down
die mouse; button with theXevels
eyedropper selected, and watch the Color dialog box, This
box vwU show the R, G, and B color values of the pixel
directly underneath your mouse, letting you clearly see
wh^e the whitest and blackest parts of your image M.
W^ch the numbers as you move your mouse around—
values of 0 are black, values of 255 are \riiite. The three
cpfors should have relatively close values— if one value is
much hitler or lower, that pixel lias a color cast.
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this color is
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white except
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STEPTHREE: Set the Saturation
F inally, you’ll want to set the color
saturation properly. Because for years
consumers have been telling printer
companies that they want photo prints with
stritogly vivid color, some printer drivers
will oversaturate an image to make that
happen. You can use the following
technique to desaturate the image a bit if
your printer spits out photos that sacrifice
realism for the sake of vibrant color. In our
case, though, our image really is a bit
undersaturated, so we want to correct this
problem with the saturation control.
Select Hue/Saturation from the Adjust
submenu of the Image menu, and bring up
the Saturation level just a bit — ^we chose a
value of +10. Since there’s no easy rule of
thumb for determining the best value, just
use your eye to figure out what looks right
By adding more saturation, you can
compensate somewhat tor a lack of
color. Add too much, though, and
the photo will start looking like a
1960s concert poster.
to you. Remember that inkjet printers tend
to oversaturate color a bit, so it’s best to
err on the conservative side when you add
saturation. You can also play around with
The image on the
right has a bit
more color
saturation than
the one on the
left, making for a
more realistic
print. The
difference is
subtle, but
noticeable to a
trained eye.
the Hue and Lightness controls if you want,
but you may get muddy, off-color results.
Most of the time it’s best to leave Hue and
Lightness set to 0.
I Hue/Saturation I
Edit: Master
Hue:
Saturation:
Lightness:
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Load... I
Save... J
□ Colorize
3 Preview
The Bigger, the Better
O ne of the most exciting possibilities — and
most common uses— of home photo
printing is the ability to do standard
enlargements without waiting for the photo lab
to finish the job. Using standard 81/2-by-11-
inch photo-quality glossy film, doing your own
enlargements up to about 8 by 10 is relatively
easy and will look fine with prints from 2-
megapixei cameras. Beyond that, though,
you’d better have a very high-resolution
digital camera (or big scans), because you’ll
soon hit the resolution limit of all but the best
digital cameras.
To print fine photo enlargements, make sure
your printer is clean and you’re using the
highest-quality glossy inkjet film you can buy.
Paper really does make a difference, and you’ll
spend around $2 per sheet for high-quality
inkjet photo film. Glossy film is generally higher
quality than glossy paper, so go for that option
when you see it. Beware, though: Printing on
high-quality glossy film at high resolution will
showcase the flaws in your digital images—
such as JPEG compression artifacts and a
small dynamic range. To get around these
problems, avoid adjusting levels or sharpening
your image too much. Or, better yet, always
shoot at the highest possible resolution, using a
lossless file format (such as TIFF) if your
camera supports it.
Here’s a rough look at your print size limits
given the amount of data your camera can
handle. These numbers are rough— we’ve used
a print resolution of 160 dpi, which we find a bit
low for our tastes. You can certainly attempt
bigger prints than those we’ve listed here, but
you may start to notice pixiiation along fine
lines if you attempt to go much larger.
Resolution dpi Max. Print Size
1 1 Megapixel
1 1 ,280 by 960 dpi I
6 by 8 inches I
2 Megapixels
1 1 ,600 by 1 ,200 dpi |
8 by 1 0 inches
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ShappenTlNsePIciures
O ne of the crowning achievements in
image-editing software is its ability to
sharpen slightly blurred images by
making pixel boundaries in images more
pronounced — especially important for scanned
photos, which often come out a bit blurry. Don’t
expect miracles, though. This technique won’t
make a blurry image crystal dear; it really
works best for improving a good image, not
fixing a bad one.
We suggest using Unsharp Mask instead of
the other sharpening filters because it gives you
more control over how much sharpness you can
apply and in what ways. Don’t let the name fool
you; Unsharp Mask is a technique (taken from
film compositing) for sharpening the edges in an
image. Simply select Unsharp Mask from the
Sharpen submenu of the Filter menu, and you’ll
see a dialog box pop up with a few settings and a
preview. Here we chose to enter an Amount of 75
percent (the amount of contrast the filter adds),
a Radius of 1.0 (the distance from the pixel that
the filter looks for information), and a Threshold
of 1 (the amount of difference in color between
pixels before you sharpen the image — a
Tlireshold of 0 sharpens all pixels, ignoring any
differences). For best results, take a subtle, not
drastic, approach to choosing your Adues. Too
much sharpening will make JPEG artifacts — and
any other imperfections — ^more visible.
A few adjustments in Photoshop’s Unsharp
Mask dialog box can work wonders on details.
Don’t oversharpen, though, or you’ll bring out
Imperfections, such as JPEG artifacts.
By keeping the Threshold
number low but increasing
the Amount and Radius
numbers to inspely liigh #de$r y^u can
get some interesting posterization effects,
induding cool exaggeration and
saturation of certain colors.
Sharpening can bring out fine details in an
Image, such as those in the net at left.
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Picky about Paper
One thing you’ll want to do in advance is stock up on paper for all
those images your printer’s going to start spewing out. The range of
paper choices today lets you print anything from a quick-and-dirty
proof, to a glossy enlargement, to a panoramic oversize print. Here’s
some general advice for buying paper.
• Take the print*proof approach. Buy cheap, low-grade photo
paper (such as plain inkjet paper) for testing and printing one-offs,
and preserve premium paper (such as photo-quality glossy film)
for final prints. You’ll save a little money that way.
• Lean toward name brands. Although it feels sort of like a dirty
trick, the best paper for your printer usually comes from the same
folks who made it. However, ft doesn't hurt to try out some other
papers. The recently released Pictorico (http://www.pictorico .com)
line of photo-quality paper— especially the Hi-Gloss White Film —
works beautifully with several different photo printers. It’s lightfast,
too, so your pictures will last longer. Basically, the higher the grade
of paper, the better the print. You can also choose between several
finishes, such as matte, canvas, glossy, and silk, among others.
• Make sure you use lightfast paper. Some brand-new papers
(combined with new inks) make prints that can last as long as
silver-halide photos — at least 15 years (a few companies tout even
longer lifespans). For more information on lightfastness and photo
prints, visit the Wilhelm Imaging Research Web site
(http://www.wilhelm-research.com).
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Picking Uieiyglit Printer
I f you haven’t looked at inkjet printers in a
few years, the quality and consistenq^ of
color you can get from a relatively
inexpensive one these days will amaze you. Most
decent photo-quality inkjet printers cost
between $300 and $500 and are extremely easy
to operate. While picking a printer is not a
difficult feat, you should consider a few things
before plunking down your credit card.
• Resolution. While resolution isn’t
everything, a higher number is better. This
isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, but a 1,200-dpi
printer will outperform a 300-dpi one every
time. For home printing, you should pick a
printer with a resolution of 1,000 dpi or
higher; beyond that, resolution plays a
decreasingly important role.
• Drop size. This is the flip side of
resolution. Drop size measures the smallest
ink drop a printer can produce. Smaller dots
mean a printer can handle greater detail and
better color reproduction. Although this
information isn’t always easy to find in a
printer’s specs, a drop size in the single-digit
picoliter range is a good place to be.
• Inks. You might not always have a choice
in what inks come with a printer, but you
should make sure they are quick-drying
and lightfast (which means prints won’t
fade as quickly in direct light) . Although
the printer’s specs should comment on
these issues, "they may not — ^in that case,
you should talk to a sales representative
for answers.
• Number of ink colors. More is generally
better. Some printers use five colors (cyan,
light cyan, magenta, light magenta, and
yellow) plus black to make prints, giving
them a larger potential color palette to draw
from than a printer with just three colors
(cyan, magenta, and yellow) plus black.
Also, a good photo printer should have the
ability to use black ink for darker areas,
which lets it do double-duty as a text printer.
• Print samples. Check out several print
samples created with the highest-quality
settings on the best paper available —
preferably ones you actually witness coming
out of the printer. It’s important to see what
the printer can do before you lay down your
hard-earned scratch.
Keeping Your Printer in Prime Shape
Although photo printers can produce
beautiful work over the course of several
consecutive prints, you’re more likely to
get killer results if you follow a killer
maintenance routine. Here are five things
you should do to make your printer
function at the highest level.
1. Treat photo paper like fine wine. Keep it
in a cool, dry, dark place. Moisture can
ruin photo paper quickly, and you’re
better off If you don’t expose it to the
elements in the first place. A resealable
bag and a dark indoor cabinet should do
the trick.
2. Keep your printer clean. To avoid any
banding, smudging, or other problems
caused by a dirty printhead or paper path,
clean your machine between prints. This
usually means cleaning the printheads and
running a cleaning sheet through the
printer— methods can vary from one device
to another, so check your documentation for
more info.
3. Use fresh media. Although the effects
are minimal, inks do age, so if you’re
outputting high-quality prints, start with a
fresh cartridge. You’re also less likely to
run out of ink that way.
4. Look, but don’t touch. By touching the
surface of some photo-quality glossy
films, you’ll leave some of your skin’s oils
on the paper, which may keep the ink
from setting. Your best bet Is to treat each
sheet like a vinyl album (for those of you
who remember what that is) and handle It
only by the edges,
5. Give it time. Wheni your prints come
out of the printer, lay them face up in a
still, dust-free area to dry completely.
Although prints may look dry when they
emerge, it doesn’t hurt to give them a
little extra time.
In the Driver’s Seat
O nce you’ve chosen your printer and
paper type, there’s one other
printer-related item to which you
need to pay attention — how you set up your
This is where you choose the
paper type you will be using.
This pop-up menu controls
the print resolution.
This little item— Super
MicroWeave—usually stays
unchecked unless you tell the
printer you’re using premium .
glossy paper. However, if you
check this box, the feature will
get rid of banding and make
prints look even better— but it
also increases the print time.
printer’s driver software. Getting the driver
settings right can make the difference between
a good print and a great one, Here’s a look at
the Epson Stjdus Photo EX printer’s driver
i High Speed
^ □ Hip Horizontal
^ ^Finest Detail
interface. Although you’ll need to check the
manual that came with your printer for
specifics, you should get a good idea of what
settings to look for based on this example.
Epson’s driver lets you
tweak the color levels in the
driver itself, but we chose to
use Epson’s PhotoEnhance3
color management.
These three choices let you bump
up the contrast or simulate old
sepia-tone prints.
A final bit of postprocessing—
these two controls add extra
sharpness and correction
for some of the artifacts
introduced by digital cameras.
David Reynolds hopes a certain collection of pictures involving LBJ and Gumby never get printed. Ever.
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Keep your personal files,
email, and Web surfing safe
from prying eyes
by Todd Stauffer
Discuss boss
protection
(or your Mac at
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macaddict.com
/debate.
illustration by
Robert Rose
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f you have a Mac at work,
you’ve got a greater incentive to
keep your job than the average
p # Windows-using employee.
Fair enough.
But having that Mac on your desk might
have its negative side, too. After all,
you’re more likely to want to run your
fingers over its keyboard and fire it up for
an Internet joyride. Or you might use its
advanced graphics capabilities to lay out
an anarchist newsletter after hours. And
let’s face it: We all send the occasional
personal email from our work accounts.
The problem: Even if you’ve propped
up your Mac with your favorite stuffed
animals and plastered your personal
wallpaper on the desktop, that Mac ain’t
really yours. It’s the Boss’s— and the time
you spend on that computer belongs to
the company. That means your
supervisors have the right to scrutinize
everything on your Mac— even the stuff
that’s going to embarrass you. Are you
willing to take the risk that your boss (or
the evil subjects in the IT department)
won’t start lurking through your hard drive
looking for evidence of anti-productivity?
If you think you’re completely safe,
think again. Last December, the New York
Times Company fired 23 employees for
Security
I echnically, ybur
company can p^e
through the files on
your Mac at any time, no
search warrant required, so
the first step is to secure
your files. The best way
to do this is to use a
program to encrypt
them. Based on a
password you create
and some magic-like
mathematics, an
encryption program
can garble a file
beyond recognition.
By entering the correct
password, you can
recover the file in ftill.
If you have Mac OS 9,
yiphcan encrypt files using the
Apple File Security application that’s included,
free of charge. In addition, you can store the
password in your Keychain so you can just
double-click to open your file whenever your
Keychain is unlocked. If the Keychain is
locked, unauthorized users cannot access the
file. The downside to Apple File Security is that
you can’t encrypt entire folders, only files.
To encrypt widi Mac OS 9:
1 . Drag the file you want to encrypt onto
the Apple File Security icon, most likely located
in the Security folder inside your Applications
folder. (If you’re a contextual-menu-type cat,
you can instead Control-cfick the file’s icon
and choose Encrypt.)
2. The computer will ask for a password,
or “passphrase” (Apple’s way of encouraging
you to use longer passwords) .
“inappropriate” use of email. Earlier in
i> Enter your passphrase twice and click
1999, brokerage house Edward Jones
fired 19 employees and disciplined 41
others for violating its email policy. And
heck, we wonder if Bill Gates even uses
email anymore after that little run-in with
the Department of Justice.
Now how much would you pay for a
little protection?
Fortunately, it won’t cost much. You can
use Mac OS 9, shareware tools, and the
Internet to keep your personal stuff personal
on your Mac, regardless of who owns it.
Then, with some well-placed compliments
directed toward your Boss, you’ll be happily
employed for a while to come.
Encrypt — ^if you want to add this password to
your Keychain, make sure Add To Keychain is
selected in the dialog.
4. Now, if you managed to type your
password correctly twice, you’ll see a cute
Uttle gold key on the file’s icon indicating that
it’s encrypted.
5. To decrypt the file, just double-click its
icon (which wiU also launch the document) or
drag it to the Apple File Security icon again. It
will ask you for your passphrase unless your
Keychain is already unlocked.
If you don’t have Mac OS 9 installed or you
want more power and the ability to encrypt
entire folders, check out QuickEncrypt, a
shareware solution fi:om Dejal Userware in
New Zealand (|25, http://www.dejal.co.nz).
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V. you double-click the
QuickEncrypt offers powerful encryption of
files and folders. Beyond that, the program
offers AppleScript integration and its own
automating system of Worksets. These are great
tools for boss-proofing your Mac because they
allow you to automate many different tasks in
QuickEncrypt. For instance, you can have the
program automatically encrypt all files in a
given folder (or only new files) at a specific
time, and you can decide where and how files
are stored once encrypted.
A cheaper solution is MacLocksmith (|10,
http://yellowsofl.homepage.nu). This basic
drag-and-drop application offers an efficient
way to encrypt an individual file or folder with
a password, and it cleans up after itself by
ddeting the original file. Kremlin ($30,
http://www.mach5.com) is another good
security program, featuring high-end l60-bit
encryption. It also has nice integration with the
Finder by adding its own menu to the menubar
of your Mac as well as popping up different
options in your Mac’s contextual menus (which
you can access with a Control-click). It’ll even
securely delete your unencrypted originals.
Apple File Security
Enter a passphrase to encr^t
"ZODORnances”:
Conrirm your passphrase:
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Using OS 9’s fife security feature in the encrypt
dialog box, choose Add To Keychain If you’d like
the file’s password stored on your Keyqhatn.
Lock it away and throw away the
key. . . Once enctypied, Apple
File Security adds a handy Ifffle
reniinder to the document's icon.
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One utiUty that wiM encrypt— and that y
might already have hanging blit on your Mac —
vis Aladdin's DropStuff 5.x (|30, http://www
.aladdinsys.com). Simply double-click DropStuff,
then choose Preferences from the File menu. Turn
on the Encrypt Archive With Password option and
the software will ask you for a password whenever
you drag a file or folder to DropStuff to create an
archive. As with Apple File Security, the resulting
file is compressed, thus taking up less space on
your hard drive.
□ Delete originals alter stuffing
This deletes your original files after they have been Stuffed.
Stuff originals instead of aliases
If you try to Stuff an alias, this Stuffs the original instead.
□ Stuff each item as an individual archive
Multiple items are each Stuffed into their own archive, rather than being
Stuffed Into one single archive containing ail the items.
Q Don’t Stuff files that are already compressed
Files that are already compressed would still be added to an archive.
□ Make self-extracting for # Macintosh O Windows
This creates a self-extracting archive which a user can UnStuff without a
Stuff It product.
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encrypt flies
as it stuffs
them, just
turn on
the Encrypt
option in its
Preferences.
HideandSeek
I n addition to securing your files, you’ll
want to hide them. In fact, you may elect
to hide folders instead of encrypting
them, since encrypting can be such a bore.
Plus, the bulk of your files probably aren’t
really sensitive. You’re just trying to bide
games, game files, game levels, game editors,
and articles about games, right? (We know
our readers.)
So, here you are with all these games, er,
documents to hide. What to do? Hide the whole
blasted folder.
Actually, there’s an upside and a downside
to hiding files. The upside is that it’s pretty
easy to do, even without having to buy an
expensive program— any Mac file or folder has
a hidden resource that you can toggle with
ResEdit or with a simple shareware program.
The downside: It’s also easy to defeat. Just
check out your startup drive in BBEdit’s Open
dialog box, for instance, and you’ll see all sorts
of folders and files “hidden” in the Finder.
Unfortunately, savvy (or really paranoid)
bosses and IT departments can easily find
hidden folders, and we haven’t really seen a
utility that gets around that.
Hiding a folder, however, will defeat the
casual (or stupid) intruder. The easy way Is to
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in Funk Monkey, the
interface makes It a
snap to hide and show
files-just select a file
or folder, click Hide
Selected, and the file or
folder’s icon grays out
to show that it is now
invisible in the Finder.
use a program to hack and hide your folders
for you. Hide Folders 2.2 ($5, http;//members
.aol.com/cyclonworx), for instance, lets you
easily hide folders, files, or aliases. Simply
drag-and-drop a folder to the Hide
Folders icon and enter a password. Now,
the folder becomes hidden from view in
the Finder and Hide Folders creates a
new Hide/Show file that you can store
elsewhere on your drive. (Just don’t
store the Hide/Show file in the folder
you’re planning to hide, as you’d create
a bizarre paradox that the writers of Star
Trek wouldn’t even touch.) The
Hide/Show file is now a toggle switch.
Whenever you want to access the folder
again, just double-click the toggle file.
The program will ask you for your
password in order to make the folder
reappear. To hide the folder again, ‘^^1
double-click its toggle file.
Want other options? The freeware
Funk Monkey (http;//www.pyroactive
.com) simply has a name too good to
pass up, and it offers a great interface
for hiding folders and files, and screwing
with some of your system files, if you’re
into that. Unfortunately the program
doesn’t offer any password protection. That
means you’ll have to bury your Funk Monkey
program in layers of subfolders and hope no
one is clever enough to come across it.
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represents a folder that is hidden from view in the
lower window. The S means Show, so when you
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enter the correct password, your folder will appear.
Note, also, that you can rename the files if you don’t
want to give away their function.
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W hen you toss a document away
and empty the Trash, it’s gone,
right? Actually...not quite. The
Finder simply stops tracking the file in its
databases, meaning your Mac could overwrite
the file at any moment. That doesn’t mean it
necessarily has overwritten the file yet. Using
Norton Utilities or other “undelete” programs,
it’s possible to recover the file— and that’s
exactly the sort of thing you don’t want the IT
department to stay up late at night doing on
your Mac.
The solution is a secure-delete utility,
which will overwrite the file immediately,
making it unrecoverable. One program to
consider is The Eraser Pro ($25, http://
yellowsoft.homepage.nu), which not only
securely deletes files, but also clears out
browser cache files (see “Scramble Your
Calls,” p47).
If you’re really serious about this stuff, you
need Kremlin (see “Security is the Spice of
Life,” p43). Actually, Kremlin is both an
encryption tool and a secure-delete utility—
which makes sense, since you don’t want the
unencrypted, deleted versions of your files
sitting there, naked and recoverable on your
drive. Kremlin uses 160-bit encryption and
contains certain algorithms that makes It
illegal to export the program to other countries
(so you’ll have to promise, on a stack of Web
windows, that you’re a U.S. or Canadian citizen
before you can download it).
If you’re not super-serious about secure-
deleting files but you want to try it, check out
Greg Koenig’s freeware File Fire, which you’ll
find in popular Mac download libraries like
http://www.macdown1oad.com. Greg does not
require any payment for this program, which
he wrote when he was 13 years old. He simply
asks that you don’t sue him. Drag a file to the
icon and it’s deleted and
overwritten with Is, Os,
and combinations thereof
to make it completely
unrecoverable.
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encrypt files and securely delete files. Yep, that’s two utilities in one.
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T he best way to keep your flies fi-om
falling into the wrong hands is to store
them somewhere those hands can’t get
at them. If you happen to have a fast Internet
connection, store your personal files off-site.
Now, if you ever have to skedaddle with a
security guard poking you in the ribs, you don’t
have to worry about rescuing your files
because you can easily access them off-site.
The best and easiest way to do this is to use
Mac OS 9 and Apple’s iDisk. Just sign up for
iTools (httpy/itools.mac.com/itoolsmain
.html) , click the iDisk tab, and follow the
instructions. Now, as long as you’re at a
computer running Mac OS 9r you can mount
the iDisk disk icon on your desktop and use it
like any other AppleShare network drive. When
you put the iDisk away, no one else can access
it without your password.
There are other ways as well. One is
through http://www.imacfloppy.com, the
previously undisputed champion of quickie
online transfer. Sip onto the site and you get
3MB of storage for free. Those three megs are
stored behind a secure user name and
password, and the interface is simple to use —
just copy files from your hard drive to the server.
For more storage space, talk to your
personal ISP. You should be able to cajole it
into offering you a little personal FTP space for
your files— AOL offers 2MB per screen name
(shared with your Web server files, if you have
any) , wliile Earthlink gives each member a full
5MB to play with. Then, simply download an
FTP client like Fetch ($25, http://www
.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/fetch.html) ,
Anarchie ($35, http://www.stairways.com), or
Transmit ($25, http://www.panic.cora) to move
files to the FTP server. Instantly, the FTP client
will transfer files to an off-site location in a
place the boss can’t get at them.
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and colleagues who send their
personal missives through their
handy little MyBjgCompany.com account, giving
almost no thought to the fact that those emails,
no matter how sensitive, are not private. Court
case after court case has let companies dig as
deep into personal email as they like, regardless
of just how personal it is. The solution: Get a
Web-based account.
Excite, Yahoo and even Apple’s iTools offer
accounts you can access directly through a Web
browser, keeping things nice and private. Log
out of the site when you’re done, and prying
eyes won’t be able to dig into your personal
email. Also, services like AOL, CompuServe and
others will let you access your mail through their
Web pages, so you can continue to use that
personal account at work without fear of
reprisal. Or if you have a regular POP account,
you can access your mail online at http://
www.mailstart.com. Best of all, snooping bosses
can’t use the Back button or check the history in
your browser to read the emails— the mail
server requires a password to display your
messages again. Enterprising Mac experts might
be able to page through your cache files and
read emails, though, so don’t forget to clean out
your cache (see “Scramble Your Calls,” p47).
he/she makes public to you using PGP
software.) Once the message is encrypted, only
that person can read it with his/her private key
and personal passphrase. In fact, the process is
so secure that even highly skilled hackers
looking directly at your email server couldn’t
read the message— it’s a garbled mess without
the recipient’s private password. When your
recipient responds, he/she can send email
encrypted with your public key. It’ll get all the
way through the company servers to your
in-box— unreadable by mere mortals. Then, with
your private password, you can decode the
secret message. Just don’t forget to delete the
unencrypted version once you’ve memorized it!
PGP is a nice little Mac program that walks you
through making and publishing your public key,
then helps you encrypt files, attachments, or
email messages. Once encrypted and sent, no
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or mirror all traffic onto another
drive anyway— but it s a start.
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leave copies of emails on the
server, though the location of the
option varies. In Outlook Express
5, go to Tools and select
Accounts. Double-click the
account name, click the Options tab, and make
sure Save A Copy Of Each Email On The Server
is unchecked. In Eudora, go to the Special menu
and select Settings. Under Settings, go to the
Checking Mail window and make sure that Leave
On Server For [blank] Days is not checked.
If you want more security, one solution is to
encrypt your messages. But just as Big Brother
would get upset if you moved out of the way of
the TV, Boss might become curious about your
email if it’s encrypted. Hopefully, though, you’ll
be long gone at your own pre-IPO startup by the
time the company gets suspicious.
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FreewarePGR available for tree for non-
commercial use (http://www.pgp.com). Using
munitions-quality encryption, PGP works on a
public/private key system. If you want to send
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been using to scope out new jobs? A
. snooping boss combing through your
browser’s history and cache could pull up some
items you’d prefer not to share, whetlier it’s
visits to the Meraet Movie Database, MP3
World, or something even more nefarious, such
as Whitehousexom (tsk, tsk). Fortunately there
are great tools to help you cover your tracks.
One we’ve already mentioned, The Eraser
Pro, will clear your cache, but you must select
the folder where your browser’s cache resides.
Then the software occasionally checks that
folder, usually for files that are a certain
number of hours, days or weeks old.
For a more automated approach,
MacWasher ($30, http://www.webroot.com) is
a great utility, designed specifically to cover
your tracks. You can choose to have it check
browser elements and beyond— Recent
Documents, Recent Folders, even temporary
folders and files created by the likes of
Microsoft Word, You can set MacWasher on a
schedule to automatically find cache files,
history files, cookies and other secret stuff; it
then deletes them fi^om all the nooks and
crannies where these files hide. In fact,
MacWasher includes a secure-delete function
(cafied bleach) , which overwrites deleted cache with— deleting AutoIVpe favorites (you know,
and history files with Is and Os. MacWasher when the browser fills in “macaddict.com”
even passed the toughest tasks we came up after you’ve typed a few letters) and the
Download Manager in
Internet Explorer.
For less complete, but
cheaper, solutions, try either
Cache Killer Pro ($14, http://
www.cachekiller.com) or the
fi*eeware Kill All Caches, an
AppleScript available ^om
popular download libraries fike
http://www.macdowtiload.com.
These tools only clean out the
browser cache, not the Recent
Folders, cookies, history, and
so on. Still, they’re handy to
have if you don’t want to shell
out for MacWasher and your
boss is getting out of control
Using MacWasher, select what you’d
like tp wash, how often, and with
what sort ed vun and vigor. You can
even simulate a wash and get a
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I t doesnl matter how groat a person you aro— eventually, one day,
you m ay get fired. While it’s never happened to any of u s
personally, we have “friends” who’ ve been there. And if there’s
anything that happens when you get summarily dismissed
from a pjjsitlon, If s people getting antsy about what you
take with you.
Most of the time you’ll get at least 10
minutes with your Mac before you are
ushered out the door, so If s Important to
know exactly what you should take with
you. Here are a few easy steps for when "N ;
the big one hits:
PRACTICE SAFE COMPUTING. Follow the
advice in this story to keep personal stuff off your
corporate Mac in the first place.
PUT A NAMETAG ON IT. If you do store files on your corporate
Mac, either keep them In one place (in a hierarchy of subfolders, for
instance) or give them a particular Label (when you’re In the Finder,
go to File and choose Label). Using Sherlock, you can search by that
Label to round them ail up and quickly move them to a Zip.
BE PREPARED. A boss recently gave a friend 10 minutes at her
deOk and told her not to touch the computer on the way to the bread
line. With her boss’s back turned, she was able to dump some
personal stuff onto a Zip that happened to be In the Zip drive—
a magiclan-like swipe of fhe hand and the disk was in
her briefcase. The lesson here is always have a
disk or some Web space ready to which you
can copy your stuff.
. WIPE IT CLEAN, if you’ve got
MacWasher, run it quickly to clean
everything off the hard drive. If you’re In a
real hurry— and you’re not above causing
some non-fafal havoc—just drag your
r Preferences folder (Inside the System Folder) to
the Trash and delete it. (Using a program to secure-
/ delete the files would be even better.) Your favorites,
^ history and browser cache are all stored in your
Preferences, so they’ll be killed off quickly.
DON’T FORGET THE MAIL. If there’s writing on the wall, check
your email program and see how your saved mail is stored. In most
programs, you can quickly grab your personal folders or mall
database and back them up to a Zip.
Todd Stauffer is the author of Wow to Do Everything with Your Mac (Computing McGraw-Hill, 1 999) and Upgrading and Fixing Macs and Macs for
Dummies (IDG Books, 2000). Before embarking on a freelance writing career, he was personally escorted from the building of a major computer-related
corporation after tendering notice.
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resulting in a brilliant, deep playing experience.
Tips and Tricks
^ Assign the scroll of the town portal as one
of your F-key skills. That way you have easy
access without sacrificing a space in your belt.
% Hold down the Option key and just run
around after you’ve completed a level to find all
the neat items you missed during regular play.
^ If you’ve got a slow machine (slower than
a G4/500), run around In circles when you
enter a new level to give the drive time to quit
churning; you may run into a terrible lag when
you switch levels.
% If you quit the game with a loaded corpse
In the field, it’ll appear In the town when you
restart. That’s usually a much, much easier
way to get your stuff back.
is a real-time, multiplayer update on the
character-based classic Rogue. (If you’re
unfamiliar with Rogue, Casady & Greene’s
Mission Thunderbolt [http://www.casadyg
.com] offered a subsequent turn-based
Rogue variation). Players explore a world
Med with monsters, weapons, armor, rings,
potions, scrolls, and all die usual trappings
of a role-playing game. You gain experience
SHRINES IN DIABLO II finally have
informative names—no more of the original
Diablo’s Glittering Shrine enigma.
up a level and become more powerful.
Enchantments empower some of the
weapons, armor, and other items, increasing
the character’s prowess. Diablo divides the
world into “safe” areas where players can
relax, recuperate, sell off excess weaponry,
and ask locals about the plot; and ‘ Wder-
ness” areas, containing a rich variety of
monsters out for blood.
If you ever played the first Diablo, you’ll
appreciate the minor tweaks in this version.
Gone are the original game’s frequently
fimitiess conversations — ^instead, cfickable
exclamation points appear over the heads of
nonplayer characters to indicate when they
have some message to deliver. Diablo’s
world has expanded vasdy from the original
game’s me^er l6 levels, and now includes
a large number of enormous outdoor levels.
The first game loaded new levels very slow-
ly; now, switching levels (particularly in the
outdoor areas) causes litde delay. The five
character classes (see “What Can I Do?”,
p49) offer greater distinctions than the orig-
inal game’s three classes, and now require
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significantly different playing styles. Shrines
are now labeled by their fimction, eliminating
a lot of guesswork.
Diablo offers beautiful art, marred by
occasional graphic glitches. For example, the
Amazon’s bulky leather armor seems ineffective,
as it Ms to extend below her waist. Flickering
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casting a shadow,
or should we?
torches create gorgeous, though wildly unrealis-
tic, guttering shadows. However, the exquisitely
rendered shadows of spires are well worth see-
ing, and it’s not unusual to see neophyte players
running around madly in circles for no other
purpose than the pure eye-candy enjoyment of
watching them. The game generally handles the
large cast of characters and their interactions
well, again with a few inconsistencies. Kashya,
the guard captain in the well-named Rogue
encampment, sometimes forgets her usual gush-
ing admiration of Amazons with the occasional
acerbic remark. And firom time to time, charac-
ters get caught in comers, causing an unpleasant
shaking effect onscreen.
We tested the game on a G4/500 and on an
iBook, which let us see how Diablo would play
on a machine that just met the processor and
memory requirements (and that let us play on
the road). With the iBook, we occasionally
encountered ferocious h%. While rarely fatal,
this phenomenon disconcerted us. The soft-
ware rendering — required by the iBook —
was outstanding, almost indistinguishable
(with the exception of a few perspective
effects) from the graphics on the G4,
Quibbles aside, Diablo II is a brilliant game.
Unless you’ve decided Unreal Tournament is
the first, last, and only game you’ll ever play,
you should get your hands on this one.
— Ian Sammis
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What Can I Do?
Diablo H’s five character classes appeal to different types of players.
Here’s a quick guide to choosing the one that best suits your style.
THE BARBARIAN
Best at; Bashing stuff
until it’s dead.
Basic attitude; Thag smash!!!
Worst at: Casting spells
(shouting and scaring away
monsters is about it).
Use If: Your idea of strategy
is to wade Into a group of
opponents and Just start
hitting them.
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the barbarian break now?
THE PALADIN
Best at: Making an entire party
more powerful at once with
aura-type spells.
Basic attitude: Holier
than thou.
Worst at: Long-distance
attacks.
Use If: You’re one of these
annoyingly helpful types who
want to aid the entire party.
THE SORCERESS
Best at: Blasting her opponents
into smithereens (until her
mana runs out).
Basic attitude: Goddess or
wimp, depending upon the
amount of mana she has.
Worst at: Anything at all, once
she’s out of mana.
Use If: You want to destroy
your opponents from afar.
THE AMAZON
Best at: Shooting arrows with
various enchantments.
Basic attitude; Speed
beats strength.
Worst at: Armoring her legs.
Use if: You can’t decide
between the barbarian, the
paladin, and the sorceress.
THE NECROMANCER
Best at: Raising an army of
the undead to do his fighting
for him.
Basic attitude: Skeletons,
forward! Ti! be hiding in
this corner.
Worst at: Convincing anyone
that he’s a good guy.
Use If: You’ve always wanted
an army of undead minions.
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at Good Guys R Us.
GUESS WHO’S GOT
all those great spells
from the first game!
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The Sms
fun & games
COMPANY: Aspyr Media
CONTAa: 888-212-7797 or 512-708-8100,
httpy/www.aspyr.com
PRICE: $2,495 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: IMac, PowerBook G3, PowerMac
G3 or G4. Mac OS 8.1 or later; 64MB of RAM (96MB
recommended), 2MB of VRAM (4MB recommended),
350MB of free hard disk space, 800 by 600 color
display, 8X CD-ROM (16X recommended)
T he Sims may well be a parent or signif-
icant other’s worst nightmare. That’s be-
cause the latest PC port from Aspyr is so
freakin’ fun that it’ll have you shunning your
real life (and the people in it) in favor of the
one you’ve created onscreen. And before you
ask how you can possibly have fun with a game
that lacks Redeemers, smart bombs, or blood-
and-guts combat, believe us — ^you’ll be just as
into your Sims as you are into your BFGs,
In The Sims, you create a household by
choosing a premade family or building your
own from scratch, MacAddict households
included a basic nuclear family, a steamy
bachelor pad, a lesbian love hut, and a cult of
Scientologists. You determine family mem-
bers’ appearance, neatness, niceness — even
their Zodiac sign. Your Sims act according to
the personality traits you assign them — H they
rate low on the neatness scale, for example,
they live like pigs,
Once you’ve created fMy members, you
must buy or build a house in the Sim neighbor-
hood and start Ming it up with essentials such
as showers, refrigerators, sinks, beds, pink
flamingos, and so on. To pay for these items,
your Sims must check the paper and get a job.
You become responsible for everything from
getting them to work or school on time to mak-
ing sure they get to a toilet when nature calls.
But before you get too concerned (or excited),
know The Sims blurs out all nudity like a narc’s
face on 60 Minutes.
The game doesn’t feature the most beauti-
fully rendered or textured characters, but it
doesn’t need to. Besides, some of the graphi-
cal and audio details are just plain cool. For
instance, if your Sims are watching TV, they
can opt for several genres of programming,
including romance, action, and horror — the
TV screen and the sounds will switch accord-
ingly, depending upon what they choose.
EATING DINNER TOGETHER serves two
purposes: Sims satisfy their hunger and
talk to each other at the same time.
OUR SIMS ARE VERY BASHFUL. They don’t
like us to see them bathe.
Our So-Called Sims
People say that pets tend to take on their owners’ personalities, and we’re wondering If one could
say the same of Sims. We asked members of the MacAddict staff to share a little bit about their
Sims. What they revealed could quite possibly be a psychologist’s dream.
IAN SAMMIS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Sims’ Names: Gultle, Theo, and Vanessa Communer.
The saddest thing that has happened: The fourth member of the cult, Bob,
died tragically. We believe he took his own life— he wasn’t happy.
The biggest problem they suffer from: They're my short on comfort and fun.
The coolest thing you built for them: A living room complete with zebra-
striped sofa and Greek columns.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much you relate to your Sims: About 1—1 like
my comforts quite a biti
CHRIS IMLAY, ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR
Sims’ Names: Tristin and Jane Shaught ^
The weirdest thing that has happened: They had a baby.
The saddest thing that has happened: They had a baby.
The biggest problem they suffer from: A baby.
The cruelest thing you’ve done to them: Let them have a baby.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much you relate to your Sims: 2.
DAVE ROSS, ART DIRECTOR
Sim’s Name: Jerk is what I call him.
Weirdest thing that has happened: About a second after his lady friend left
his house, she called to say he never Invites her over. WomenI
The saddest thing that has happened: He cries and drinks all the time.
The best thing you bought: The cyberviewer. I think he’s watching porn.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much you relate to your Sim: Way too much to
really wanna think about it, thank you.
CATHY LU, FEATURES EDITOR
Sims’ Names: Greg and Marsha Brady; Jonathan and Bella Girardelli.
The weirdest thing that has happened: Jonathan successfully proposed to a
married woman, who stayed friends with her first husband (1 don’t even
'thinit they divorced!).
The cruelest thing you've done: I brutalized and killed their neighbors.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much you relate to your Sims:
0. 1 don’t do Incest or bigamy.
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GET YOUR MOJO RISING! This
is as far as it goes, though.
irs A BEAUTIFUL DAY in the neighborhood. Several
houses are vacant, so you can move In more families.
You control one Sim at a time (the others
will go about their business in the meantime),
but you can control any Sims in the neighbor-
hood. The trick is to balance your family’s
everyday needs. This includes everything from
raaldng sure they have enough money and food,
to keeping their levels of fim, energy, and com-
fort high. A mood bar gauges each Sim, so if
you note that little Jimmy has a low fun level,
you may want to let him watch cartoons. If you
ignore your Sims’ needs for positive social inter-
action, you might end up with, say, a mother
and father who refuse to sleep in the same bed.
Do your job, and your Sims will prosper
by getting promotions and having better
relationships. If you let them go to crack-
house hell, though, you’re in for some trou-
ble: Fires have been known to bum down
houses, and we, urn, hear that your kids
can even get sent to military school if you
neglect them. And what would life be without
a little lovin’? Yes, your Sims do get intimate
with each other — they even get married and
have children.
One minor negative — ^we found placing
furniture and objects a bit tricky. And while
we’re on a mild whine-fest, we should also
mention the game’s Roseanne Barr-“like
appetite; The box claims you only need 64MB
of RAM, but you really should allot at least
100MB. On our G3 400MHz Mac with 128MB
of RAM, the game only crashed once, although
we assigned it a full 1 10,000K of memory.
Before you ask about the boredom factor,
remember that sometimes watching other
people do the everyday things (eating, peeing,
going to work) provides the most entertain-
ment. And let’s be honest: Sometimes it’s bet-
ter than having to face up to our own pathetic
lives . — Cathy Lu
9001I news: Hugely fun. Hugely
addictive. A game for everyone,
bad news: positioning furniture
is difficult. System requirements
are enormous.
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IT’S LIKE A MOOD
RING, only better.
The mood bar tells
you exactly how your
Sim is feeling.
WHEN YOU HAVE THE MOOLAH, you can go
on a shopping spree and choose
WHEN YOU SELECT ANOTHER PERSON or an
object, you get a menu of action choices.
r
nieArtoiTorhire
REST IN PEACE. Betty mourns the death by
drowning of her husband. We just can’t
imagine how that happened...
L et us be dear: We don’t advocate cruelty to vir-
tual life forms, so all you Sims’ rights advo-
cates can just back off. Having said that, here’s
how to have a little fun with them.
1 . Cause bladder problems. Sims
love to pee, and when they can’t,
they get very, very upset. When
they can’t take It anymore, they
simply go on the floor. Effective
methods: Remove all toilets from
the house, or put a toilet in an inac-
cessible place, like at the end of a
long, narrow hallway.
2. Drown them. One of the coolest
features of the game Is the ability
to build a pool. However, unlike
humans, Sims can’t climb In and out
without a ladder. And when they don’t
have one, they drown. Effective method: Build a
pool and add a ladder so Sims can get in. While
they're In the pool, remove the ladder. They’re
goners in no time flat.
3. Starve them, Sims love food, and when they
can’t have it, they go nuts and eventually starve to
death. Effective methods: Remove the refrigerator
from the house. Run their money down to zero by
buying extravagant statues and furniture, it takes
a few days to finish them off via starvation, but
don’t despair; They w/7/ die.
OCT/00 Moc Addict
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DeusEx
— - ^ ^
fun & games
COMPANY: Aspyr Media
CONTAa: 888-212-7797 or 51 2-708-8100,
httpy/www.aspyr.com
PRICE; $49.95 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: G3 266MHz or faster processor,
Mac OS 8.1 or later, 64MB of RAM (128MB recom-
mended), 150MB of free hard disk space, 4X CD-ROM,
ATI Rage Pro with 4MB of VRAM or equivalent or 3d1x-
based card (Rage128 or VoodooS recommended)
M ac gaining is so hot right now,
you’re probably having a crisis of
choice. Well, if your Mac can hack
it, Deus Ex is the most innovative adventure in
years. The game comes from developer Warren
Spector, who contributed to PC classics such as
Ultima Underworld, Ultima VII: Serpent Isle,
and System Shock. So it’s no coincidence that
Deus Ex plays like a combination of all three
games and appeals to action fans, dungeon
crawlers, and strategists alike.
Ow, Hardvrare
Hungry
D eus Ex is a resource hog! Running the
darned thing on a 400MHz G4 with
128MB of RAM and a PCI VoodooS card
nearly caused a China Syndrome-^\)Q melt-
down on our desktop. On a lessdf system,
even with low graphics, the game will chug.
We had to ramp up virtual memory to 200MB
just to get the game running the first time. The
game (on both Mac and PC) inexplicably
loads up the high-resolution, high-geometry
models the first time you play, which makes
the problem even more appalling. We expect-
ed system requirements similar to Unreal
Tournament’s since the two games share the
same engine, but Deus Ex has far more com-
plex architecture and textures, as well as
RAM-munchIng voice-overs and music.
We recommend a couple of Items for
playing Deus Ex, though you don’t absolutely
need them: a three-button wheelmouse, a
Voodoo graphics card (the game is optimized
for Glide), and stereo speakers. If this
seems excessive for a game, let us remind
you--thls is more than just a game.
YOU MAY NEED TO CONSULT your big book of extraterrestrial life forms,
but we don’t want to give too much plot away.
Graphically, Deus Ex brings the Unreal
engine into more realistic territory. It eschews
the spacescapes and alien worlds of Unreal
for dark city streets and gleaming office
buildings. The wide variety of animated and
interactive characters differentiates this game
from the Unreal series, but the extra textures
used to paint this world sacrifice perfor-
mance, chewing up copious amounts of mem-
ory and processor power. (See “Ow, Hardware
Hungry,” left, for more information.)
Deus Ex is not a shoot-’em-up. It offers
plenty of action, but emphasizes logic and
intrigue. Start with the Training mode, a
slick piece of work that familiarizes you
with weapons, explosives, medicine, and
other essentials. Don’t skip this mode, or
you’ll wander around in frustration until
the first low-level security guard you bum-
ble into shoots you down.
One problem we ran into as we wrote
this review is that we didn’t want to give
EXPLORING LABORATORIES REVEALS CLUES about the story and hints
on how to create your own human preserves.
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away the plot. (For a glimpse into the first
mission, though, see “Deus Ex: The First
Five Minutes,” below.) While not exactly
great literature, it’s a quantum leap from
the rescue-Earth-from-space-fiends story
lines we’re used to. At the core of this puz-
zle is you — Si technologically and biologi-
cally enhanced agent for UNATCO, an elite
antiterrorist unit in a dystopian future
world packed to the gills with bloodthirsty
terrorists. Think Blade Runner meets Die
Hard, Impressively, although the story
incorporates interactive and movie-style
sequences, you never get a feeling of dis-
connection. Also, the nonlinear plot allows
you — in fact, often requires you — to move
off into a separate branch of the adventure,
only to find a clue that leads to yet a dif-
ferent mystery. This game is leagues and
le 2 ^es deep.
Deus Ex lets you balance your hero’s
attributes to suit your style and skill level.
You can earn skill levels in disciplines such
as picking locks, hacking computers, swim-
ming, shooting, explosives — even medicine.
Each skill you learn has a dramatic effect on
how and even where you play the game. A
great swimmer can explore subaquatic areas
inaccessible to, say, a brilliant marksman.
In the midst of a game, you can enhance
and vary your cybernetic augmentations
(properly described as nano-augmentors) .
From time to time you’ll find augmentation
canisters — the closest thing to straight-out
power-ups — in strategic locations. You can
nano-augment your vision to see in the
dark; you can also upgrade that ability four
times until eventually your character can
see other characters right through walls.
Augmentations, combined with weapons
and tools, give the Deus Ex world limitless
combinations of events and outcomes.
Characters speak reasonably comdncing
dialogue in some of the best voice acting yet
seen in a Mac (or PC) game. The sheer num-
ber of speaking characters is staggering, and
you might want to take notes. Fortunately, the
game keeps careful track of the objects
you’ve picked up, the skills you’ve learned,
and the conversations and clues you’ve wit-
nessed. But this feature makes saved games
huge — 10MB to 20MB, in fact.
Quake and Unreal players who think
they can barge into Deus Ex using their
rocket-jump and mouselook skills are in
for a nasty shock. Shot accuracy depends on
factors other than where you point the cur-
sor, and sniper mode may cause nausea.
The unforgiving control scheme makes this
the perfect time to invest in a three-button
wheelmouse. The ability to shoot, use and
select items, and interact with people, all
from one controller, makes the whole
process a lot less painful.
In short, Deus Ex not only pushes the
envelope, it kicks it out of an airplane win-
dow at 30,000 feet. But it also pushes your
Mac’s limits pretty hard, so it’s not for the faint
of pocket or for owners of less powerful
machines . — Prank O'Connor
8(K»i news: The most detaiied,
absorbing, imaginative, and originat
use of 3D gaming yet seen on the Mac.
f}^ news: Bloated and corpulent in
its need for fancy hardware.
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Deus Ex: The First Five Minutes
A fter watching the Intro, get the crowbar
near the other end of the dock— next to
the wooden crates. Smash them to reveal the,
Binoculars and Lockpick. Go to the hole In the
dock opposite the crates, down the stairs, and
' into the water, and smash the crates hanging
under the dock. Here you’ll find the Bioelectric
Cell and the Multitool. Now go to the end of the
dock and speak to Paul and Corporal Collins.
Smash the crates and get the goodies before
heading up the ramp onto the island.
Hide from sentries behind the first col-
umn. When the first one walks by, stun him
twice to knock him out, then drag his body next
to the other ones nearby (search them for
equipment). Now head towards UNATCO head-
quarters (marked on the map) , and talk to the
tech sergeant to get the Comm Van code, Get
everything you can from Inside the Comm Van
(a Medklt and Darts).
Once you’re in the van, it you have hacking
skills^ you can access the security terminal.
Otherwise, take the Datacube under the table
for the log-in code. Select Camera 1 from the
menu and open the door it controls. Log out
and exit the Comm Van. You can now enter the
open chamber in the ground and climb down.
The ammo crate contains an EMP grenade.
Make sure to get the next Multitool from the
crate beside the van, then head back toward
the statue. Congratulations.. .you're five minutes
into one possible game scenario.
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reviews
THE CANON N656U IS FREAKIN’ SMALL
FOR A SCANNER, and it works well, too.
CanoScan N6S6U
COMPANY: Canon Computer Systems
CONTACT: 800-652>2666, httpy/www.canoscan.com
PRICE: $129 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC G3 or taster, Mac OS 8.5 or later, 32MB of RAM (64MB
recommended), 20MB free hard disk space, built-in USB port (excludes add-on board)
I f you’ve been searching for an inexpen-
sive, high-quality scanner that fits in
your computer bag, look no further
than the Canon CanoScan N656U. Featur-
ing 42-bit color scanning at a maximum
optical resolution of 600 by 1200 dpi, this
USB flatbed scanner produces surprisingly
great scans for such a compact device.
The elegant silver-and-gray case would
make Apple’s industrial design team proud,
but looks aside, the most notable feature of
the N656U is its size. This full-featured
scanner weighs less than four pounds and
has an ultrasmall footprint, with actual mea-
surements of 10.1 inches wide by 14.7
inches deep by 1.3 inches tall. The scanning
area is 8.5 by 11.7 inches, sHghtly bigger
than a sheet of legal-size paper. The scan-
ner’s small size allows it to fit on even the
most crowded desk. You can also pack the
N656U in an iBook or PowerBook bag.
The N656U requires no power plug,
since it obtains power from the USB bus
itseh. One cable provides both the connec-
tion and the power, but this means you
must plug the scanner into either your
computer’s built-in USB port or a USB hub,
not into the keyboard.
How well does the device work? Scan-
ning a standard 4 by 6 color photo yielded
wonderful results. When we used the default
CONTROL YOUR SCANS with the CanoScan
Toolbox, which you can access through
Photoshop or the CanoScan Toolbar.
settings, the color came out a little dark,
but enabhng the ColorSync option made
our scans nice and bright, with acceptable
color matching.
The speed of the scanner is directly pro-
portional to the resolution setting you
choose. A 72-dpi scan for use on a Web
page or in an email takes just a few sec-
onds, while a higher-dpi scan, up to 600,
can take much longer. Scanning black-and-
white documents for use with an OCR pack-
age went quickly and produced impressive
results. We found the N656U’s speed on par
with that of other USB scanners we’ve test-
ed, but of course it worked slower than
FireWire or SCSI scanners, which have
more bandwidth.
The requirements for the CanoScan
N656U specifically state that it is not com-
patible with add-on USB boards. This
means if you have an older Mac to which
you have added a USB PCI card, then the
N 656 U supposedly won’t work. We tried the
device on a Power Macintosh 7600 with a
Belkin USB PCI card and had no problems
using the scanner. It may not work with all
other configurations, though — so if you
use a USB add-on board, you should keep
in mind that Canon probably won’t provide
any support for your configuration.
Given the enormous number of variables
and conditions involved in image scanning,
it can turn into an overwhelming task.
Canon has made scanning easy and afford-
able, and wrapped it all up in a small,
attractive case that would make a welcome
addition to any computer desk or mobile
setup . — BuzZoller
goal news: Lightweight. Smatl foot-
print Outstanding software bundle.
Powered by the USB bus, so it
doesn’t require external power,
tali neill»: Not officially compatible
with USB add-on cards.
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Bundle Up
T he N656U comes with an impressive sS
of software.
•CanoScan Toolbox
This piece of software does the actual scan-
ning. It consists of a Photoshop plug-in and the
stand-alone application. It al$o works with
Photoshop plug-ins and filters to give you
greater control over resolution and tweaking
curves, as well as access to Phatoshop-fike
rubber stamp and texttdqls.
•OmniPage 8 SE from Caere
(http7/www.caere.com)
This OCR application allows you to scan text
documents and convert them into editable text.
•PhotoBase from ArcSofl
(http://www.arcsoftcom)
PhotoBase is a full-featured media cataloging
application that helps you easily organize all
your scanned documents.
•PhotoStudIo from ArcSoft
(http://www'.arcsoft.com)
This complete image editing application even
accepts Photoshop plug-ins.
WITH THE CANOSCAN TOOLBAR, scanning
and image editing are just a click away.
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Simply drag and drop user interface elements into your
application's windows and dialog boxes to create anything from a
small utility to a large application or the next great game — ^faster
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hardware
I xia’s own software Isn't Mac-compatible, so the company bundles Canto's
Corel’s Custom Photo 5, which consists of Photo House and Project Designer with Photo Easy.
, Photo House, a low-end Image editing application, offers layers, resampling capabilities, and red-
eye removal, among other features. For beginners, following the wizard’s predefined paths can take the
pain out of learning. For others, navigating this simplified interface can get cumbersome. Trying to find
some burled tools will drive you nuts, and you don’t get options like CMYK mode or masking.
Project Designer, while relatively simple, provides many templates for typical home-printing
projects like creating flyers, greeting cards, and T-shirt transfers. It does most or all of the work for you,
but if you want to edit any of the images, you’ll have to switch back to Photo House.
Cumulus 5 (see Reviews, Jul/00, p74) lets you catalog and sort all the images on your hard drive
or other storage devices according to various attributes. You can also compress folders full
of images, create Web pages with thumbnails, and export catalogs to FileMaker Pro.
WITH A COUPLE OF CLICKS, the Canto Cumulus 5
can turn an image-filled folder into a Web page
with hot links to the original images.
COMPANY: Ixia
CONTACT: 203-730-8805 or 800-881-2966, http y/www. ixla.com
PRICE: $150 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC or faster, Mac OS 8.6 or later, 64MB of RAM (with virtual memory on),
100MB of free hard disk space, available USB port
FOR PENNY-PINCHING PIXELS, the Photo Easy DualCam
Edition for Mac is small, lightweight, and inexpensive, but
with its low-quality images, it hardly feels like a bargain.
S ay goodbye to film forever! You’ll often
hear this claim from manufacturers
whose digital cameras cost hundreds of
dollars. Ixia’s Photo Easy DualCam Edition for
Mac packs in a digital camera and helpful
software for just $150. To take advantage of
this low price, however, you’ll have to over-
look the device’s poor picture quality.
You pay for pixels in this market, and the
DualCam provides just 307,200 of them, for a
maximum resolution of 640 by 480 — enough
for onscreen display but not much more. In
THIS IMAGE WOULDA, COULDA been
beautiful, had the DualCam done a
better job. The image lacks sharpness
and gets even fuzzier at the edges.
contrast, new high-end digital cameras from the
likes of Nikon and Canon contain sensors that
can capture more than 10 times that number of
pixels, producing large, high-resolution prints.
The camera’s other specs look similarly
underwhelming — a fixed-focus lens, no LCD
panel for reviewing images, only 2MB of flash
memory (and no removable memory storage),
and minimal adjustment capabihties.
On the plus side, the small, lightweight
camera easily fits in a shirt pocket. The built-in
memory holds l6 images in Fine mode or 32
in Normal mode. 'The camera’s control panel
will likely send you to the manual for some
explanation, but it’s moderately easy to use.
How do the images look, though? Unfor-
tunately, they look terrible. All the indoor and
outdoor shots we took ended up extremely
blurry, especially at the edges. The fixed-focus
lens means closeup pictures will come out
even bluriier. Most flash pictures overexpose,
though the camera does offer some exposure
compensation settings that help. However, you
have to set the flash to either automatic or off,
so you can’t use it for fill flash (to illummate
shadows in bright settings). Also, sometimes
the flash doesn’t go off when you need it to.
Picture This Software
We hooked the camera’s included cable to a
USB expansion card in a Power Mac 7500 and
transferred a full camera’s worth of 16 Fine
images in just 20 seconds. A video-out port on
the camera lets you view images on a television,
and you can use the DualCam as a videoconfer-
encing Webcam. (We couldn’t test that function
because the necessary software wasn’t available
at press time; Ixla says it will be available in the
third quarter as a free download.)
For about twice the price of a DualCam,
you can choose from several digital cameras
that offer megapixel (1 million pixel) resolu-
tion and better image quality (though they lack
the software Uda provides). At press time,
retailers were selhng Epson’s PhotoPC 650,
Fuji’s MX- 1200, and Olympus’s D-360L for just
under $300. But if you’re cash-strapped, the
Ixla may suffice, because it’s got a nice price.
— BamhardFeif
good news: Cheap. Lightweight
and small. Adequate software,
bad news: Cheap. Poor Image
quality. No macro focusing. No
removable memory storage. No
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PRICE: $249.99 (SRP), $199.95 (street)
REQUIREMENTS: Mac with Ethernet port; DSL or cable modem connection highly recommended
A s more homes turn to DSL and
cable modems for high-speed
Internet access, two questions
arise: How can computers share a connec-
tion, and how can you control their use
of it? Macsense, a division of Xsense,
addresses both these concerns with its
newly improved Internet-sharing hub, the
XRouter Pro MIH-130.
A beefed-up version of the XRouter
MIH-120 (see Reviews, Jul/00, p6l) the
XRouter Pro lets you share a single Internet
connection (from a cable modem, a DSL
connection, or an Ethernet connection to a
larger network) among four or more Mac,
Linux, or PC computers. Installation is a
piece of cake, and configuring the XRouter
Pro is simple — ^you just type a URL into a
Web browser, which connects your Mac to
the XRouter’s control interface. From this
specialized Web page, you can configure
exactly how the XRouter Pro behaves.
The XRouter Pro sports several
improvements. The speeded-up Ethernet
ports can now pass packets between four
computers at 100Base-T speeds. You can
configure the XRouter Pro to block
access to certain Web sites, or conversely,
to allow access only to certain URLs.
Using another new feature, we set up the
XRouter Pro to host a second router
CONTROL AND CONFIGURE your connection
from this easy-to-use Web page,
behind it in a kind of network-within-a-
network arrangement.
If you’re looking to set up a secure
shared Internet connection, the XRouter Pro
is a great buy. It features great performance,
control over your connection, easy setup,
tremendous reliability, and a translucent
smoky-gray case for the style-conscious.
Though pricey, it’s well worth the money.
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fun & games
COMPANY: Dreamcatcher; The Adventure Company
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PRICE: $39.99 (SRP)
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T raitors Gate, the new 3D point-and-
click adventure in the mold of Myst
and The 7th Guest, should remain for-
ever locked as a punishment for its tedious
gameplay. The game asks players to assume
the role of special operative Raven, taking
on a challenging — albeit Saturday-
moming-cartoonish — mission, code-
named “Traitors Gate ”
In the hackneyed plot, a high-level
U.S. operative has gone rogue and is
planning to steal England’s famed
Crown Jewels. Raven’s task is to infiltrate the
Tower of London, avoid detection at all costs,
and replace the real jewels with fakes, which
you’ll use to track the game’s true enemy.
This makes sense, of course, except for the
part that makes no sense.
As players click, click, click their way
through pixilated environments, they
follow an imperative to leave no trace of
their existence — thougli the game contra-
dictorily lets them bum through locks and
shoot guards with nonlethal darts. Players
have access to a good crop of weapons
and tools, but must deal with an ineptly
designed inventory interface. Instead of
storing acquired gadgets in one place, it
provides two separate and distinct inven-
tory boxes (one for mission items, the
other for acquired goodies) — ^you must
scroll through items individually to find
the one you want.
Mind-numbing gameplay dominates
this four-CD wreck. Each point-and-click
moves the hero around, but about a 3-
second lag separates your mouse click
and the response. This happens every
time the hero enters a new location, so
exploring a good-size room could easily
eat up half an hour. In-game puzzles,
which invariably require Raven to use an
item in his inventory to manipulate an
item in the environment, largely involve
finding ingenious ways to unlock doors.
This strategy can only hold your interest
for so long, however, and Traitors Gate
uses up all the portal-opening methods in
the first disc. An in-game cursor allows a
player to adjust the camera view (to look
upward or downward and pan left or
right) — this otherwise cool feature goes
awry when it allows the camera to swing
in wild circles.
Though saving the Crown Jewels may be
an excellent cause, we propose a still more
noble effort — preventing people from
spending their precious cash on this
game . — Greg Orlando
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e-Pictiire Pro
design & graphics
COMPANY: Beatware
CONTACT: 650-556-7900, http://www.beatware.com
PRICE: $199 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: Power Mac, Mac OS 8.5 or later,64MB of RAM, 20MB
of free hard disk space, CD-ROM
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B eatware’s e-Picture Pro is a solid choice
in the fast-growing genre of Web-
specific graphics appfications. Released
last year as e-Picture, a tool for creating ani-
mated GIFs, the new Pro version is expressly
designed to create animated banners <for Web
sites. Its smooth integration with popular 2D
and 3D graphics appfications makes it a great
complement to your existing toolkit.
Using e-Picture Pro is straightforward. You
can choose a template for standard-size ad
banners or page elements (such as animated
rollovers or navigation bars) and customize it.
A document can contain separate layers, each
capable of supporting numerous text or
graphic objects. You can apply a variety of
effects (such as inner shadows, outer shadows,
and glows) to any object or layer. We especially
like the support of composite modes (such as
overlay, difference, multiply, and invert) for
blending and combining objects.
Rather than reinvent the wheel with its own
drawing features, Beatware chose to comple-
ment established graphic apps. E-Picture Pro
imports native Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
files while retaining layer integrity, and exports
to Flash (.swf), QuickTime, RealVideo, and a
variety of other formats. It also imports 3D
models in Lightwave format (.Iwo) and the
standard 3dfx model format. Although e-
Picture Pro has some built-in drawing tools, the
pen and brush aren’t pressure-sensitive.
THE MULTIPLE
VIEWS make
viewing multiple
layers a whole
lot easier.
But whatever it lacks in drawing tools,
e-Picture Pro makes up in animation tools.
To animate any object, simply go to a point
on the timeline and move the object to cre-
ate keyframes. To speed up or slow down
the animation, slide the keyframes back-
ward or forward on the timeline. In addi-
tion, the IWeening Wizard (see “Tweening
Wizardry,” below) provides even greater
control for finessing the animation both
temporally and spatially.
E-Picture Pro does have some drawbacks.
Although you can export both QuickTime and
Flash ffles, you can’t include sound in an ani-
mation. Those used to doing work in Flash or
QuickTime will want sound and may find the
silence uncomfortable.
Beatware provides tech support stricdy
through email. We discovered this when we
couldn’t get e-Picture Pro to launch success-
fully on our PowerPC 9500. Though Beatware
was responsive and helpful, the problem
remained unresolved at press time. If compat-
ibility with an older machine is important to
you, contact Beatware before buying. We
encountered no problems running the app on
our iMac DV.
Billboards have taken on a whole new
dimensionality on the Internet highway.
While the physical ones still flank real high-
ways, the virtual ones springing up on the
Web world are more fun, better targeted —
and animated. E-Picture Pro is well suited
to the task of creating these little gems, and
if Beatware continues to refine the program,
it should evolve into a solid all-around tool.
— Mike Caputo
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many formats. Good animation
control. Compositing modes for ,
layer effects. neWS: Many
palettes require a targe screen.
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T he Tweening wizard in e-Picture Pro gives animators full control of temporal and spatial ani^
matlon. Clicking any property-such as an object’s color, size, or position— In the Timeline
window brings up the Tweening wizard (as long as that property has two or more keyframes).
Many times an animator wants an object to start off slowly, increase in speed, then
gradually come to a stop, as in the case of a bouncing ball. The Tweening Wizard lets you define
the motion as Accelerating instead of the default Linear, which creates evenly spaced animation.
In Accelerating mode, an acceleration value determines how quickly or slowly the object speeds
up or slows down. Instead of setting up a circle that simply slides through the frame at an even
pace, with the Tweening Wizard’s improved animation control you can create a ball that bounces
realistically in and out of view.
THE TWEENING WIZARD WINS the hearts of animators
by allowing control over an object’s speed and path.
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With cross-platform ftinctionality and a small
file size, PDF helps streamline workflow and
reduce processing time — ^but only when it’s
used correctly. Adobe created InProduction to
debug PDF files and to give design and pre-
press folks greater control over trapping,
trimming and bleeding, and other print issues.
Among InProduction’s five main tools —
Preflight, Trira/Bleed, Color Converter, Adobe
in-RIP Trapping, and Separator — Preflight
will benefit the majority of users. Preflight uses
you’ve created a profile, you can send it to oth-
ers who want to print PDF files to that printer.
When converting a project into PDF for-
mat, people often fail to embed the fonts with-
in the document. InProduction solves that
problem by embedding missing PostScript,
Type 1, and Tnieiype fonts.
Preflight found a total of five errors and
gave us two warnings on our simple, one-page
document containing one art element and two
copy blocks. It fixed three of the errors auto-
This software comes with a big price tag,
but it’s a good investment for people who reg-
ularly send PDF files for commercial printing.
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automatically. Gives detailed
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bffii tims: High price. Users must
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Umax Asti*a 3400
hardware
COMPANY: Umax
CONTACT: 510-651-4000, httpvywww.umax.com
PRICE: $99 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: USB-connected Mac, Mac OS 8.0 or
later, 32MB of RAM, 250MB of free hard disk space
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the Astra 3400 offers out-of-this>world performance.
T hink of the Umax Astra 3400 as the
Millennium Falcon of flatbed scanners: As
Han Solo said, “She may not look like
much, kid, but she’s got it where it counts.” Its
bland exterior conceals a powerful, easy-to-use
scanner, perfect for students, families, and any
user with simple scanning needs.
Installation’s a snap: Plug in the included
USB and power cables, run the installer CD,
and you’re set The 3400 comes with a soft-
ware bundle that includes PhotoDeluxe
(Adobe’s entry-level photo-editing program).
Presto PageManager document management
software, and a limited edition of OmniPage’s
optical character recognition software. Four
buttons on the front of the scanner, easily con-
figured via a Control Strip module, let users
scan, copy, attach scans to email, and turn off
the scanner lamp to save power.
For photographs, drawings, and other run-
of-the mill scans, Umax’s VistaScan software is
so easy it’s almost absurd. Once you select an
area you want to scan, VistaScan automatically
adjusts the colors, contrast, brightness and
sharpness. Users who want to tweak their images
GREAT SCOTT! The Astra 3400 captures
bright colors and fine lines easily, as seen
in this detail from a comic book cover.
manually before scanning can do so with just a
few clicks. The program’s colorftil interface
doesn’t follow Macintosh design conventions,
but it’s intuitive, effective, and offers separate fea-
ture sets for beginning and advanced users.
At 42-bit color and up to 600-by-l,200-dpi
hardware resolution, the 3400 creates great-
looking images. Scans often come in a bit
fuzzy, but you can quickly sharpen them with
your image-editing program of choice. For
simpler images, the 3400 is lightning fast; at
300 dpi, it scanned a 4-by-6-inch photo in just
over 16 seconds. Full-page black-and-white
images often took 10 seconds or less.
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ANYONE CAN BECOME A SCANNING
SUPERHERO with VistaScan’s beginner
mode, which leaves most of the dirty work
to the image-adjustment software.
If you’re scanning at extremely high reso-
lutions, however, you’re in for a long wait. A
standard-size photograph took a whopping 9
minutes to scan at 2,400 dpi, plus 2 more
minutes to appear onscreen. Though the Astra
3400 can scan at up to 9,600 interpolated
dpi, it can only use a small portion of its 8.5-
by-1 1-inch scanning area to do so.
There are a few minor annoyances. The
autoadjust feature sometimes oversteps its
boundaries, obliterating subtle color tints in
illustrations. When scanning, the 3400
makes a moderate amount of noise, and it
monopolizes your computer until the job’s
done. Like previous Umax models, the device
is anything but eye-catching, and its case and
lid feel thin and flimsy. Strangest of all, it
lacks an on/off switch.
While these problems are enough to
downgrade the Astra 3400 from Freakin'
Awesome to Spiffy, they don’t even begin to
overshadow its good points. We could hardly
believe how well it scanned our ordinary pho-
tos, drawings, and even spare change. Men
you factor in its low $99 price tag, the Astra
3400 is downright stellar in spite of its
flaws . — Nathan Alderman
good nows: Great image quality.
Powerful, easy software, low price,
bad news: Hlgh-resolution scans
are slow. Case feels cheap.
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see what Cliff Bleszinksl did with his scanner.
Bleszinski’s Cat Scan Homepage (http://v\nivw.cat-scan.com) features scanned images of
actual live cats. (No, no one closed the lid on the cat.) Though Bleszinski has received plenty of
angry mail from cat lovers, his fans from all over the world have also sent in abstract scans of
their own pets. Some of Bleszinski’s images have even appeared in a San Francisco art gallery.
Note to pet owners: Since the light from the scanner can seriously hurt your pet’s eyes, stick
to scanning photographs of your cat Instead of the real thing.
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gram. With a few new features and an interface
revamp, Suitcase 9 might fit that bill — ^if it
weren’t such an underwhelming upgrade.
Last year, Suitcase 8 included Insider Soft-
ware’s FontAgent. Unfortunately, this year’s ver-
sion doesn’t include any capability to detect
corrupt fonts, so new users have to lay out
more cash for a font maintenance utility,
Suitcase 9 does have some slick new fea-
tures. You can configure the main window to
display fonts, font sets, and/or type previews.
drag and drop fonts between panes or fi'om the
Finder. The Fonts window also offers a font suit-
case view, )^ch doesn’t work yet (Extensis says
a patch is in the works). The flexible Preview
pane provides four views of a font’s appearance.
Among the less-shck new features is
MenuFonts, which creates enhanced WYSIWYG
font menus — handy, but redundant in many
applications (Microsoft Word, for one).
All told, Suitcase 9 is still the Ginsu knife of
font managers. If you need to manage fonts
competitors. But if you’re using fonts on just
one machine, $49-95 is pretty steep for such a
minor upgrade . — Niko Comouvanis
good nows: configurable interface.
Suitcase Server and Windows
compatibility for workgroups,
bad nows: Minor upgrade. Eats
RAM for breakfast. No more
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COMPANY: AVerMedia
CONTACT: 408-263-3828, or httpy/www.aver.com
PRICE: $99 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: iMac DV, PoweiMac G3 or G4
F or iMac DV owners tired of seeing their
favorite DVD movies squeezed onto a 15-
inch screen, AVerMeia’s iAVerKey DV
may look like a dream come true. It easily pipes
your iMac’s video signal onto a larger TV screen,
and at $99, it’s less expensive than most similar
products. But looks can be deceiving: The blur-
ry picture on our TV just couldn’t compare to
the crisp, clear iMac screen.
The iAVerKey DV is easy to set up — ^just plug
in the AC adapter, connect one cable to your
Mac’s external video port, and another to your
TV’s video-in jack. To its credit, AVerMedia
thoughtfully includes all the cables and adapters
you need to plug in the device.
On our 17-inch test TV, the monitor image
was bright and flicker-free. 3D games looked
decent enough, despite some noticeably
bleeding colors. However, the TV screen’s
lower resolution made the text fuzzy and
unreadable at anything below 18 points, mak-
ing Web browsing an exercise in squint-eyed
frustration. If you’re going to use the iAVerKey
DV to show off a PowerPoint presentation,
you’d better make your text big and colorful.
The iAVerKey DV’s handling of DVD movies
was its biggest disappointment. The picture
seemed jerky and pbdlated, and the colors
were muddy and blotched, like a badly com-
pressed GIF.
IT’S SMALL AND INEXPENSIVE, but with the
iAVerKey DV, you get what you pay for— and
that’s not much.
Schools or small businesses looking for a
quick, inexpensive way to show Mac presenta-
tions on a TV may tod the iAVerKey DV an
acceptable solution. But DVD fans who need to
see their movies on a bigger screen
should save up for a real DVD
player . — Nathan Alderman
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Readris Pro 6
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COMPANY: l.R.I.S.
CONTACT: 800-447-4744 or 561-395-7831, httpy/www.irislink.com
PRICE: $79 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: PowerPC or faster, Mac OS 7.6 or later, 22MB of RAM, 25MB of free hard disk space, CD-ROM
T hough it has its problems, Readiris Pro
6 optical character recognition (OCR)
software does a serviceable job of
converting nearly 50 languages into editable
text. It didn’t translate our Enghsh, Turkish,
and Italian documents with 100 percent
accuracy, but we got respectable results.
Readiris is adept at handhng complex
page layouts, but you need to prepare doc-
uments before starting the recognition
process. When Readiris acquires a page as
a scanned image, the software marks text,
graphics, and tables with boxes of various
colors. It also uses a system of arrows,
which you are free to rearrange, to point in
the direction the software will read the
text. You can choose to re-create the orig-
inal document’s layout when you export
text, but we suggest avoiding (liis option,
since oftentimes the text will flow incor-
rectly. You’ll get best results if you first
delete all graphics from the document,
then export it as straight text into Word
or SimpleText.
The software’s main downfall is its buggy
nature. While it had no problem handling
PICTs and JPEGs, at times it refused to open
TIFF files. Sometimes Readiris would even
unexpectedly quit without rhyme or reason.
Although most scanners allow you to
scan directly into Readiris, as of press time,
those using TWAIN scanning software can’t.
I.R.I.S. is working on a fix, which should
be ready by the time you read this. This
omission is no big deal, since there is a
workaround, but we would have saved time
and avoided aggravation if either the (badly
written) manual or I.R.I.S.’s tech support
department had mentioned it.
Readiris is a useful product for those
who need OCR help. But in addition to a
PowerPC and 22MB of RAM, you’ll need a
fairly high tolerance level to deal with this
quirky software . — Cathy Lu
BOOd news: Recognizes nearly
50 languages. Decent accuracy.
Handles colored text surprisingly
well, bad news: Buggy software.
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Backyard Baseball
2001
COMPANY: Humongous Entertainment
CONTACT: 800-499-8386 or 425-486-9258,
htIpy/Www.humongous.com
PRICE: $19.99 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: Power Mac, System 7.5.3 or later,
32MB of RAM, 5MB of free hard disk space, 4X CD-ROM
A ct out your baseball fantasies: Strike
out Barry Bonds or hit a grand slam
off Curt Schilling. Backyard Baseball
allows you to select a pint-size all-star team
of your favorite Major League ball players
to play with Humongous Entertainment's
Backyard Bunch.
This fantastic premise is well executed,
allowing you to play against the computer or
another player’s team in a single game or as
part of a 14-game season culminating in the
Backyard World Series. Hitting is easy with
clear, easy-to-follow icons cueing batters for
various options induing a bunt, line-drive, or
grounder. The game’s also a hit for allowing
each athelete’s personahty to emerge. Stars
BATTER UP with some heavy hitters from
the peanut gallery.
like Mo Vaughn saunter up to the plate and
Mike Piazza utters clever barbs while waiting
for a pitch. The game closely mimics a ball
game, featuring field chatter (swing, batter,
batter!) and the announcer’s nonstop com-
mentary. Humongous Entertainment’s excel-
lent execution of a terrific concept will
make this game a hit with Little
Leaguers . — Keelin Devincenzi
good news: Addictive gameplay.
Great player banter,
bad news: you can1 field bails or
control your running speed.
Scholastic’s The Magic
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COMPANY; Microsoft
CONTACT: 888-218-5617 or 716-871-2915,
http'y/www.microsoft.com
PRICE: $19.95 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: Power Mac. System 8.1.2 or later.
32MB of RAM, 15MB of free hard disk space, 4X CD-ROM
T he eighth installment of the popular
software series — based on the collec-
tion of books and the Fox Kids TV pro-
gram — blends interactive learning and
adventure to make the science of bugs fun for
those ages 6 to 10. Constant action, terrific
graphics and intriguing sounds ensure play-
ers won’t be bored as they try to recapture
FIND JUNE BUGS, not roaches, on this
Magic School Bus ride.
four bugs that have escaped from Ms.
Frizzle’s classroom terrariums into their nat-
ural habitats. By exploring these habitats and
learning about the bugs located within, play-
ers can deduce which one to bring back to
the classroom based on clues such as color,
eating habits, and mating practices. Within
each habitat, players can also click student
reports — exceptionally well done animated
shorts that feel like a bona fide, albeit 60 sec-
ond, Discovery Channel special. The software
also includes 15 different games, including
the entertaining “Bugs Are It,” where players
can test their knowledge of what they’ve
learned so far. Overall, the software uses
great graphics, animated clips,
and audio to make learning fun.
— Keelin Devincenzi
news: Makes bug science fun.
Clever graphics and animation,
bed news: Limited replay value.
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PRICE: $7.99 (SRP)
REQUIREMENTS: Power Mac, System 8.0 or later, 32MB
of RAM, 10MB of free hard disk space, 4X CD-ROM
T he Pokemon craze continues with
Mattel Interactive’s PokeROMs, educa-
tional quiz software shaped like the
popular trading cards. Fifty different Poke-
ROMs wiU be released by the end of the year,
capitalizing on that popular “gotta catch ‘em
all” marketing phrase. We’d suggest skip-
ping them all. In each PokeROM, Professor
Oak guides players through various activi-
ties, including a math and puzzle solver; an
observation tower, where you can observe
Pokemon characters in their natural environ-
ment; and a quiz contest. The quiz is the only
worthwhile activity, allowing up to three
friends to test their knowledge of math, sci-
ence, and reading from a choice of five dif-
ferent skill levels (grades 1 to 5). With 11
questions per quiz game and only 2,000
questions total, you would go throu^ all the
questions in less than 200 games. We played
What do these numbers have
in common: 25,35,85, and
1057
LIKE BARBIE SAYS, math is hard.
10 times and already began to see repeat
questions. The math and puzzle solver is too
easy, and the observation tower, which dis-
plays a shde show of Pokemon screen shots,
seems a little pointless except to the
Pok^mon-obsessed, So unless you’re one of
the zealots, you’re probably better off buying
a trivia game that offers more
questions for your money.
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of questions.
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Peter Tamte, Microsoft’s Mac Man
M uch to the relief of Mac gamers, Microsoft
and Bungie (which recently became a
Microsoft subsidiary) announced in July that
Bungle’s stunning new game Halo will indeed come to the
Mac. A new company, headed by former Bungie vice presi-
dent (and previous MacSoft executive director) Peter Tamte, has
taken charge of bringing Microsoft’s key games, including Bungie’s
titles, to our platform. The good news doesn’t stop there, though — ^not
only will Tamte’s newest foray into the Mac gaming market render
Microsoft’s games Mac ready, but the company is going to author orig-
inal games as weU.
We chatted with Peter a few weeks after he and Microsoft
announced the formation of his still unnamed company, and he gave us
the skinny on the new company, Mac games, and Microsoft.
FORMER BUNGIE VP Peter Tamte’s new company will
bring Microsoft’s key game titles to the Mac.
MacAddict: What’s the first Microsoft title the
new company will port over?
Peter Tamte: The first one we’re going to work on is
Age of Empires It: The Age of Kings.
MacAddict: Why did you decide on that title?
Peter Tamte: 1 personally believe that it is one of the best
games ever created. I’m interested in publishing games that
have cultural significance. I want the experience of playing a
game to be more than just a temporary adrenaline rush. I want people
who play games to get something bigger out of them. Age of Empires
n is an opportunity for people to relive another time period, to learn
about other cultures, and to challenge themselves with building a new
civilization within the medieval time period. To me, that’s highly
engrossing, and it’s exactly the kind of content I want to provide. It is
also one of the best-selling games ever.
MacAddict: How did your deal with Microsoft come into being?
Peter Tamte: Microsoft’s strategy is to be a multiplatform game pub-
lisher. [Microsoft has] always had an interest in making its games avail-
able for the Macintosh, and [the people there] were concerned that
their acquisition of Bungie not be viewed as Microsoft trying to take
something awc^ from the Macintosh market. They wanted to make it
clear that Halo is going to be available on the Macintosh, and they want-
ed to put into place a way to ensure that all of Microsoft’s key games are
made available on the Mac.
MacAddict: Is your new company completely independent?
Peter Tamte: That’s right. My relationship with Microsoft is solely a
hcensing relationship.
MacAddict: Will your new company publish titles by other com-
panies as well?
MacAddict: Can we look for these elements In your original-
content games?
Peter Tamte: Yes. I’m going to try to create culturally significant tides,
the kinds of games that provide a deeper experience.
MacAddict: What kind of potential, if any, do you see In Apple’s
new Power Mac G4 Cube?
Peter Tamte: What I think is interesting about the Cube is that Apple
seems to be the only computer company that recognizes there are phys-
ical obstacles to people using computers in more areas of their home
or in more aspects of their lives. We saw what happened when Palm
came out with the Palm Pilot. It has a good form factor, and it’s an easy-
to-use, accessible device. A lot of what [Palm] solved for the first time
were physical obstacles [that kept people from] using a mobile com-
puting device. I think computer manufacturers need to approach the
computer’s use in the home the same way Palm did when it created the
Pilot. The Cube’s a good first step.
AGE OF EMPIRES II: The Age of Kings will
be Tamte’s new company’s first title.
Peter Tamte: That’s unclear at
this point. I’m interested in mak-
ing sure the best games are avail-
able on the Macintosh. If some-
body else isn’t following up on
an opportunity, I might be inter-
ested in [that opportunity]. The
licensing arrangement I have
with Microsoft, however, is one
component of a larger entertain-
ment strategy, which is the foun-
dation of why I’m creating this
company. This company is going
to create original content for
the Macintosh and other plat-
forms, and bring key content to
the Macintosh.
MacAddict: Will your new company shoot for simultaneous
releases of Microsoft games?
Peter Tamte: Yes. Obviously we can’t do that with Age of Empires H, but
that’s what we’re going to try to accomplish for Ffight Simulator 2002
and [the next version of Links'**^ IS] .
MacAddict: Will you try for a simultaneous release of Halo?
Peter Tamte: Yes — ^the plan is to release Halo simultaneously on the
Mac and PC.
MacAddict: Will every Microsoft game get ported, or just the
ones you guys pick?
Peter Tamte: It’ll be the key games. Microsoft would like to see as many
of its games made available on the Macintosh as possible. There are
logistical issues associated with getting a lot of games done, but we’re
going to bring as many of the key games over as we can. — RC
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PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF PETER TAMTE
Baldup's Gate
A Preview from the Realms
W e wouldn’t have believed it ourselves a few months ago — so many
games shipped this summer that we simply couldn’t handle tlie del-
uge. Despite gallons of coffee and as game-playing-intensive a staff as any
in the business, something had to give — and we couldn’t fairly review
Baldur’s Gate (available from GraphSim at http://www.graphsim.com), a
massive real-time, role-playing game that ships on five separate CD-ROMs.
We’ll give you a full review of Baidur’s Gate next month, once we’ve had a
chance to master its complexities — ^for now you’ll have to settle for some
preview ramblings we’ve managed to drum up between playing Diablo II,
Deus Ex, and the Sims.
In Baldur’s Gate, you control a party of adventurers as they wander
through a world full of monsters, magic, and intrigue. Cities offer places to
rest, but can also harbor assassins, thieves, and other members of the usual
underclass you’d expect to find in a fantasy story. In wilderness areas, you’ll
encounter travelers, monsters (both weak and strong), dungeons, and
ruins full of hostile monsters.
We initially had
mixed reactions to
Baldur’s Gate — ^while
the game is vastly intri-
cate, it suffers strongly
from some of the same
flaws as the Advanced
Dungeons & Dragons
(AD&D) gaming world
from which it borrows
its structure. In partic-
ular, the game makes
low-level AD&D char-
acters extremely weak,
and it doesn’t always
coddle them the way a
A TYPICAL BATTLE— spell casters and archers
stay back as a swordsman runs forward.
human Dungeon Master would — a group of vastly powerful monsters often
sets upon an inoffensive traveling party as they attempt to journey through
the Sword Coast (this makes for a lot of dead characters). Fortunately,
Raise Dead spells are very, very cheap — so cheap that the screams of other
characters at the death of a party member have all the emotional impact of
“Oh my god! He killed Kenny!”
Still, after a great
deal of playing (and
frequent saves — you’ll
find yourself saving
games with names like
“a few seconds later”
and “got him!”), the
game’s terrific series of
nonlinear plots had us
hooked. Now, if only its
makers manage to port
the multiplayer version,
that would truly thrill
us (at the moment,
Mac users get a sticker
promising a multiplayer
game “vAien available”) .
—IS
THE MAP IS OFTEN THE ONLY WAY to figure out
the parts of a level you’ve missed. The highly
stylized closed eye in the lower right tells your
party to set up camp for the night.
Sims
i n an attempt to win adula-
tion, at least in simulated
life, I moved a four-person
cult into an empty lot next
to my (previously) happy
family and built a commune
there— a large open room at
the front, two barracklike bed-
rooms off either side of a narrow ; ,
hallway, and a bathroom at the
back. No TVs or sofas tor these Sims-
moral rectitude alone would sustain them. Cultie * BOO-HOO!
Communer (my touchy-feely leader) frightened off most of the neighbors by
attempting to give them backrubs at odd moments, while Vanessa got a job
as a daredevil. Cultie then found a late-night job as a security guard.
My little cult quickly degenerated. Moral rectitude proved not to be ter-
ribly entertaining, and my cult members suffered from profound social inep-
titude. After a couple days, they became far too depressed to find work or
even to cook— kitchen fires occurred almost nightly. Adding to the malaise,
they found the cheap rail beds very uncomfortable, and people frequently
clogged the narrow hallway to the sole bathroom, resulting in full bladders
and unhappy Sims. After a particularly bad night, Bob Communer passed
away, sending the entire commune into paroxysms of mourning. Theo and
Cultie grew to detest one another on sight, further straining the group. It
seems my dreams of godhood must go unfulfilled— cults work as badly for
Sims as for people.— /S
Artist’s Statement
I used my 63/300 MT beige (glossy black, actually), with a 12MB
MlcroConversion Voodoo2 card, to take this shot. I took it during an
online game— notice the plug in the top right corner.— /?/c/f "Rico’' Law
OCT/00 MacAddict
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by Ion Sammis •
G one forever are the sad days when we Mac
gamers had to keep our upper lips stiff and
the tears from our eyes as we answered taunts
from our PC-using friends by claiming that we could
drive perfectly well with a mouse or adequately pilot a
fighter with a keyboard. In this grand new age of USB,
we finally have a vast range of outstanding joysticks,
gamepads, and steering wheels from which to choose.
Sadly, our utopian new existence is not without flaw.
Nearly every one of our great new input devices works
through Input Sprockets, a neat set of tools Apple has
provided game developers to let them incorporate dif-
ferent types of controllers easily. While that’s fine for
new games, if you want to play an older game you’re
often back to the world of the keyboard and mouse. That’s a
dam shame — a lot of older games are just crying out for the
newer controllers.
Fortunately, a clever little shareware control panel called USB
Overdrive (http://www.usboverdrive.com, $20) offers a solution. USB
Overdrive gives you a second way to use a USB controller for gameplay.
It allows you to assign your controller’s various analog controls and
buttons to the mouse movements and keystrokes older games require.
As an example, let’s make an old favorite, Ambrosia Software’s Escape
WITH USB OVERDRIVE your joystick can
emulate both mouse and keyboard.
Velocity Override (http://www.ambrosiasw.com, $25), work with a
brand-new USB joystick.
What You’ll Need
•A USB controller or Joystick
•USB Overdrive
•Escape Velocity Override
Thinking Abont the Game
W hen you assign game controls to a USB joystick, you’H often
face the problem of which controls to assign to which
actions. This problem becomes particularly acute in a game like EV
Override — with keyboard controls firmly in mind, its designers cre-
ated 31 different controls. Since this is more than even the most
wildly overdesigned controllers provide, you’ll have to be a bit
selective about what controls you assign to the joystick. Here are a
few guidelines to keep in mind.
Purr COMBAT-RELATED COMMANDS ON THE CONTROLLER.
When you’re in a fight, you don’t want to have to spend time find-
ing the appropriate key for an action on the keyboard.
LEAVE INFORMATION COMMANDS ON THE KEYBOARD.
You’re rarely in any hurry to check your mission info, so you can
safely leave it on the keyboard. Likewise, you don’t need to assign
player info and map buttons to your controller.
LEAVE RARELY USED CONTROLS ON THE KEYBOARD.
You Ye not likely to have escorts early in the game, so you won’t
need access to the escort controls right away. Similarly, you
(hopefully!) don’t use the destruct command very often.
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Initial Steps
Start by installing both EV Override and USB Overdrive. Once you
reboot, select USB Overdrive from the Control Panels submenu
of the Apple menu. For the moment, focus on the leftmost pane in the
window. The list box contains all the programs for which you’ve created
control sets. Because you’ve just started, you’ll see only Global settings—
these apply when you’re not in a program for which you’ve created specif-
ic controls. Click the New button, dismiss the warning dialog box that
appears, then find your copy of EV Override and click Open. You should
now have a new setting, EV Override, in the control panel. Make sure
you’ve chosen Joystick in the pop-up menu above the left list box.
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2 Rotating
Begin the control-mapping process by assigning the commands
you’ll need to turn the ship clockwise (right arrow) and counter-
clockwise (left arrow). Assign these controls to pulling the joystick left and
right. To start, click Stick Left from the list box In the center. Choose
Keystroke from the pop-up menu on the right side of the window. Next, click
the box below the word Keystroke and type the left arrow key. You’ve now
assigned the left arrow to pulling the joystick to the left. Similarly, assign the
right arrow to Stick Right.
WHEN YOU PICK Keystroke from
the pop-up menu, this panel
appears, letting you select a
keystroke and/or modifier keys.
3 Accelerating and Weapons Fire
You might think assigning the accelerate command to Stick Up would make
sense, following the arrow keys. In our experience, however, holding the
stick forward constantly, as you’ll find necessary for maneuvering in EV Override,
can get tiresome — after playing an Override game, you’ll feel like you’ve been
shaking hands with a gorilla. Instead, assign it to a button. Assign accelerate (the
up arrow) to a button on your joystick that you can hold down without putting too
much strain on your hand.
You’ll also want buttons for your weapons controls. On most modern joysticks,
the two most accessible buttons are the trigger and the one that rests under your
thumb— it feels natural to assign these to Fire Primary and Fire Secondary, respec-
tively. When you push a button on the joystick, USB Overdrive immediately jumps
to the appropriate button number in the central list box. Click the trigger to find out
which number represents it (usually 1). Assign a space keystroke to this button.
Assigning the secondary fire control is a bit trickier— you need to use a modi-
fier key. Control. You can’t just press the control key, because to USB Overdrive
that doesn’t count as a keystroke (only the keys that would create characters in a
word processor count as keystrokes). Instead, USB Overdrive counts Control,
Opto, Shift, and Command as modifiers that you assign with check boxes. To
assign a Control keystroke, click the box below the word Keystroke as usual, but
this time press the Delete key. This creates a blank keystroke, to which you can
assign modifiers (a blank keystroke with modifiers tells USB Overdrive to only
press the modifier keys). Click the Control check box to indicate that you want to
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4 Target and Weapon Selection
The final set of controls you’ll need in combat are the weapon and target
selection controls. These are natural choices for a hat or rocker switch on
the right side (on the left side if you’ve got a left-handed stick) of the joystick.
Weapon selection Is the letter W by default, which is very easy to assign —
just as with the previous keystrokes, click in the Keystoke box and press W.
Target selection, by contrast, is a bit tricky. You can’t just press the Tab key with
the cursor in the Keystroke box; as with any other well-designed dialog box,
doing so will just move the cursor to the next field! Fortunately, USB Overdrive
is clever about this— just press Option-Tab to enter a Tab character.
5 Finish and Test
Continue assigning keys to actions until you run out of buttons and axes.
Remember that since USB Overdrive is quite generic, it won’t always
work with every analog axis you have — in the case of the Gravis Xterminator
Dual Control, for example, you don’t have access to the up-and-down axis of the
thumb pad, and the wheel control hasn’t worked on either of the joysticks we’ve
tested. When you’ve made all the desired selections, click the Enabled check
box. This will make the set active when you run EV Override.
Now start up EV Override. You may find that your ship initially tumbles out of
control. To calibrate your joystick, move its analog axes through their complete
range of motion— USB Overdrive can calibrate a joystick on the fly. If you’ve set the
sensitivity too high, though, you may find it nearly impossible to prevent an axis
from triggering. If you run into this problem, lower the sensitivity by choosing a
lower number In the Sensitivity pop-up menu — ^weVe had good luck with sensitiv-
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Overdrive Tricks
W hile all this should make EV Override play nicely with your joystick,
our example doesn’t cover the full gamut of USB Overdrive’s tricks.
Here are a tew more tricks that make USB Overdrive indispensable if you
want to play old games on new Macs.
Cursor Modes
Many older flight sims and driving games require that you fly or drive
with the mouse. This is almost hopeless— there’s a very good reason you
don't see pilots madly mousing during takeoff, or NASCAR drivers spinning
trackballs for all they’re worth. To control an old mouse-driven sIm with a
joystick, use the Cursor pop-up menu option, which lets you control the
cursor with the stick.
The Cursor menu gives you two choices, Absolute or Relative. Absolute
mode maps the positions of the joystick to specific positions onscreen— so
moving the joystick as far up and left as possible, for example, puts the cur-
sor in the upper left corner of the screen. Relative makes the cursor move
in the direction you pull, so moving the joystick to Its extreme up and left
position moves the cursor in the same direction onscreen. To tell which one
you need, see if the game you’re playing automatically stops a turn when
you release the mouse, or If the turn continues until you move the mouse
back away from the turn. If you only turn while you’re actually rolling the
mouse, use Relative mode, which will simulate a nice, steady mouse move-
ment. If you keep turning until you carefully move the mouse away from the
turn, you should use Absolute mode, and take advantage of the wonders of
your (hopefully) auto-centerIng joystick. . .
Joystick Scrolling
If you’re a fan of older strategic games, you’ll frequently find yourself mov-
ing to and from the scroll bars to see the entire map. If the game you’re play-
ing uses standard scroll bars, you can assign one of three commands to
each direction (up, down, left, or right): Accelerate (scrolls by one line),
Scroll (scrolls a number of lines you set), and Page (acts as though you
clicked briefly In the gray area of a scroll bar).
Mouselook with Better Mice
If you’re playing a shooter that uses mouselook, USB Overdrive’s mouse
capabilities can come in handy; it handles some of the more complicated
multibutton mice you find these days (Microsoft’s Intelllmouse, for exam-
ple, has five buttons and a wheel). You'll find the ability to switch weapons
quickly from the mouse far more than useful— there's nothing quite like get-
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Y our scanner does a terrific job, and color photos
look great on yotu* Web site. But you’ve stumbled
across a slight hitch in your plan to post dozens of
full-color vinyl album covers on your site, “Great Album
Covers of the Sixties.” When you skp the 12-inch-square
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Now what? Change your Web site to “Coin Collec-
tors’ Corner?”
The answer is obvious: Scan twice. Scan the right and
left halves separately, then stitch them together in
Photoshop. Unless you know a few sneaky Photoshop
tricks, though, the seams will show. Follow this step-by-
step guide and you’ll convince your visitors that you have
access to a very large scanner! (Keep in mind that many
images fall under copyright — ^you may need to get per-
mission to use them on a Web site or in print.)
NO, WE DON’T HAVE a 12-inch-wide scanner, we stitched two scans
together to create this image. Can you see the seam?
ONCE YOU’VE SCANNED IN both
halves, you’re ready to start working!
1 Capture the Album Cover in Two Scans
Slap that album cover on your scanner and press one side up against the edge of
the scanning bed, doing your best to keep things perfectly straight. Then launch
Photoshop and select your scanner’s plug-in from Photoshop’s Import submenu under the
File menu. Set your scanning software as follows: If you’re scanning for the V^eb, scan at
72 to 1 00 ppi (pixels per Inch). If you’re printing, divide your inkjet dpi by three for scanning
in ppi (that is, for 720-dpi printing, scan at 240 ppi). Remember, doubling the dpi will
quadruple the file size, so err on the low side—you can run a test print with lower settings
to see if you find the results acceptable. Use RGB color Instead of Web color, 216 colors,
or 256 colors. Keep your scanning software at exactly the same settings for both the left and
the right scans, avoiding filters, auto adjustment, and other refinements.
Now scan half your album cover, then repeat the process for the other half. You’ll have
about 3V2 inches of overlap, but as you’ll find out, that’s a good thing.
Once you’ve got two windows in Photoshop, each containing about half of your album
cover, don’t fiddle with image color and contrast! You’ll only make it harder to match up the
two halves — ^you can finesse the colors later on.
YOU MAY NEED TO SWITCH your scanner
software to its Advanced mode to turn off
such options as Auto Adjustment.
Halftones, the almost invisible dot pattern used for
printing newspaper and magazine photos, can cre-
ate an annoying moire pattern (an artifact resem-
bling dark and bright fringes) in a scan. Although
some scanning software Includes a descreening
filter, you shouldn’t turn the filter on as soon as you
see a moir6 effect in your preview. This shrunken
image often exhibits fringes even when the final
product will come out fine. The only way to know
for sure is to do the final scan and look at the result.
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straighten the Images
Although it’s sometimes hard to avoid getting tilted Image scans, you
must orient the images correctly to splice them together. Fortunately,
Photoshop can straighten slightly rotated images with ease.
Start with either image and select the Measure tool. Drag a line along any
perfectly horizontal edge on the album cover. While the main art on the cover
(whether It’s photos or Illustrations) often lacks true horizontal lines, you can
usually find a good edge somewhere in the text and logos.
Next, select Arbitrary from the Rotate Canvas submenu of the Image menu.
The number in the Rotate Canvas dialog box is the number of degrees by
which your image is off the level. To straighten out your image, all you have to
do is click OK, then save your changes. (To get rid of the Measure tool’s line,
just select any other tool.)
Repeat the process with the other scan to align both images properly.
IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE while drawing the
measure line, you can grab either end of it
to make fine adjustments.
THANKS TO THE MEASURE
TOOL, Photoshop knows exactly
how far to rotate your image.
Combine the Two Images
Now you’re ready to combine the two images in one file. First, though,
you need to enlarge the canvas for either piece (let’s arbitrarily choose
the one on the right side) to make room for a 12-by-1 2-inch picture.
Select Canvas Size from the Image menu. Since you know the album
cover is 12 inches wide, set the canvas width to that size. Click the
middle-right option in the dialog box, which tells Photoshop to keep the
original image against the right edge while making room for the left side of the
album cover.
The rest is easy— just select the left image by pressing Command-A (this
selects the whole thing— you want the overlap). Then copy the selection
(Command-C), and paste it onto the right image (Command-V).
To slide the newly pasted half Into place, select the move tool from the Tools
palette and drag the image until it perfectly overlaps the right. Zoom in
(Command-plus sign [-1-]) on the cover details while you make the final adjust-
ments to align the two halves precisely. If you want to make extremely fine
adjustments, you can nudge the image one pixel at a time by holding down
Command while you press the arrow keys. When you think you’ve got perfect
placement, check the entire seam.
Although you fixed any alignment problems in the previous step, the four
outer edges of the image probably won’t match exactly — ^you’ve likely left more
of the edges in one Image, less in the other. You can use the crop tool to trim
off the excess border, leaving crisp horizontal and vertical edges.
To select the crop tool, hold down the tool in the upper left corner of the
toolbar, then select the rightmost tool In the pop-up menu that appears. Drag
to select the region you want to keep, then choose Crop from the Image menu.
Whatever you do, resist the Impulse to flatten the image! You’ll need to keep
the two layers separate for a while longer while you make further adjustments.
NOW THERE’S PLENTY
OF ROOM for the rest of
the album cover.
THE DRAG TOOL has
its very own shortcut—
a good thing, since you’li
use it frequently. Just
hold down the Command
key and drag!
If you’re moving the wrong layer, open
the Layers palette, click the layer you
want to move, and try again. Photoshop
also provides useful shortcuts— when
you select the move tool, Command-
clicking selects the layer under your
pointer, while Control-clicking lets you
choose which layer to move.
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4 Adjust Colors and
Contrast to Match
Although you scanned both sides of your cover
on the same scanner, you may find the colors or contrast
don’t match up very well.
To create a perfect match between the two sides, you
can use standard Photoshop tools such as Levels,
Brightness/Contrast, and Curves. Applying the changes
directly to a layer can be a bit risky, though — you’d do
better to use an adjustment layer (see “The Adjustment
Layer,” below).
To make an adjustment layer, first select the layer you
want to adjust in the Layers palette (start with the layer
that has the best color or contrast). Choose Adjustment
Layer from the New submenu of the Layer menu.
In the New Adjustment Layer dialog box, select an
adjustment tool appropriate for what you need to do —
Levels for overall lightness problems, Hue/Saturation for
color corrections, and so on. Also check the Group With
Previous Layer box, which is unchecked by default.
Click OK, check the preview box in the Adjustment
dialog box to see your changes as you work, and adjust
until the two halves match.
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Rdpeat the process with the other layer if necessary.
Just remember that your aim is to match the two halves
at this point, not to make a perfect final picture. Save that
for later.
AGING SCANNERS SOMETIIVIES READ an image
differently at the edges of the scan bed
(we’ve exaggerated the effect in this example).
The Adjustment Layer
W hy work with an adjustment layer rather than the original? Photoshop stores any
changes to an adjustment layer separately from the orfginal image, so no matter
how many alterations you make, you leave the original layer completely untouched. You can
turn off or delete the adjustment layer to remove the changes, or return to the adjustment
layer at a later time and make more changes— this offers you great flexihility as you work
on the image.
Adjustment layers are vastly preferable to relying on the History palette to undo unde-
sirable changes— they’re easier to work with, they don’t disappear when you close the file,
and they don’t degrade Image quality as multiple small adjustments do,
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Layer adjustments alone don’t always hide the seam where you joined
the two images. If you run into this problem, you can use a layer mask
to blend the seam. This Is where having a big overlap between the images can
come in handy.
Select the upper layer in the Layers palette, then create a layer mask by
choosing Reveal All from the Add Layer Mask submenu of the Layer menu. This
creates a mask that initially leaves the layer untouched.
Make sure you’ve set your foreground color to black (If you want to reverse
part of the mask later, you can paint over it in white). Select the brush tool and
choose a large brush— this will save time when you’re masking a big area, and
the brush’s soft edge can disguise the seam. Now carefully paint across the
interface between the Images. The brush will reveal the underlying layer wher-
ever you paint, exposing the other side’s version of the same part of the cover.
Layer Masks
A layer mask Is nothing more than an invisible
layer where to become transparent and where to remain visible and
opaque. Typically, black areas of a layermask render the underlying original layer
transparent, white areas cause the layer to show, and all grays in between create
degrees of transparency. Thus, you can use a layer mask to control the trans-
parency of a layer by painting on the mask with black, white, pr shades of gray
The great thing about layer masks Is that they never change the underlying
. layer. No matler how much fiddling around you do with the mask, you’ve pre-
served the original layer compiete^^^
CLICK THE PAIR OF LIHLE SQUARES
in the Tools palette to set the
foreground and background colors
to black and white, respectively.
BY MAKING PORTIONS Of the
top layer transparent, you
can blend the two layers
almost invisibly.
5 Final Tweaking
Once your image looks consistent all the way across, with no visible seams,
you’re ready for final tweaking.
First save a copy (to preserve the original layers in case you need them), then flat-
ten the image (select Flatten Image from the Layer menu). You’ll be applying all adjust-
ments from this point on to the Image as a whole, ending up with a much smaller image.
Now apply all your usual tweaks for an impeccable final image.
• Clean up imperfections using the Dust And Scratches filter (hidden in the Noise filter).
Take care, though — if you’re not careful, you’ll ruin the nice sharp edges of your picture
(after all, to the filter they look a lot like scratches!). Touch up defects like tears or labels
using the clone tool.
• Adjust colors using your favorite color tools, and tweak contrast using Levels or Curves
(these tools offer much more flexibility than the Contrast And Brightness adjustment).
• Don’t make changes to color mode and size until the last step. If you’re posting the file
to the Web, change the color mode to Indexed Color. Use the Image Size settings to give
the file the exact dimensions you need.
0 Tip
If you’re handy with the gradient tool, you can create a
black-to-white gradient over the seam on the Layer
Mask to do the same thing in less time than it takes to
run a brush over the same area.
PROCEED WITH CAUTION when using
the Dust And Scratches filter— it can
wreak havoc on any sharp edges in
your image.
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Q My Mac randomly indexes its hard
drive at odd times, usually right after I start
up the computer. 1 always stop this index-
ing, as I do not understand what it is doing.
Please teU 7ne whaVs going on and how to
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Indexing is actually a function of
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document on your computer — the content
search is only as complete as your most
recent indexing. Apple has set its newest com-
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and your Mac is trying to complete the index-
ing when you start it up.
To turn off the indexing feature, launch
Sherlock, select Index Volumes from the Find
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change the indexing schedule, let your Mac
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You can set the times and dates when you want
Sherlock to index your drive.
Q / overheard some of my PC geek
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feared the answer would be no. Please tell
me I can play old video games on my Mac!
Yes, absolutely! For years, an under-
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video gaming alive via the MAME project.
MAME stands for Multi-Arcade Machine
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The MAME software is available for just about
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This software emulates the actual hardware
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sic, but the actual coin-op version!
The only problem with MAME is that it uses
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Q I love my new Mac DY— except for
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This litde bugaboo even stumped Yours
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tures. To change the wake-up sound, open
this control panel and select Notification from
the Preferences menu. This dialog box lets
you select a new wake-up sound firom any of
the alerts installed in your System Folder. To
add new ones, save a sound in System 7 Sound
File format with a utihty such as SoundApp,
then drag it onto your closed System Folder.
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Q Each Him / turn on my computer, I
see the flashing question mark on a folder
for a few second, and then the computer
boots up. What causes this? Is something
wrong with my computer?
The flashing question mark folder
usually occurs when your computer can’t find a
disk with a valid, bootable System Folder on it.
hi your case, the computer is searching for a
System Folder, and at first it doesn’t find one. It
continues searching, finds the System Folder on
the hard disk, and starts up. If your computer
stayed fixed on the flashing question mark
folder, you would need to insert your System CD
and investigate the hard drive for problems.
Since your computer boots normally, most
likely you have not assigned a startup disk in the
Startup Disk control panel. Open the Startup
Disk control panel and make sure you’ve
selected the hard disk. If not, simply dick it
once to select it — ^your computer should start
right up without further problems.
Q Recently Eve had some problems with
my computer. AU of the forums where I
posted my questions mentioned that I prob-
ably had an extension conflict and that I
should use the Extensions Manager control
panel to troubleshoot the issue. What does
that mean and how can I do it?
Needless to say, we get lots of questions
from people with problems that arise from
extension conflicts. Extension files are pieces
of software that add functionahty to your sys-
tem — ^in effect they become part of your sys-
tem. The little icons you see at the bottom of
your screen during startup are extensions.
Each one adds important software to your OS.
The problem with extending your entire sys-
tem’s functionality in this way is that exten-
sions load whether your Mac needs them or
not — and since lots of different people make
extensions, they don’t always work well
together. These conflicts can cause malfunc-
tioning peripherals, odd program behavior,
system freezes, and just about any other com-
puter problem imaginable. Every Mac user, no
matter how experienced, will run into an
extension conflict at one time or another.
You have some simple tools at your dis-
posal to determine if yom problem stems from
an extension conflict. One popular software
utihty called Conflict Catcher, from Casady &
Greene (http://www.casadyg.com), analyzes
your system to determine if you have an
extension conflict. This is a great utility, but
because it is commercial, it costs money
(about $70).
Those looking to save a httle cash can sim-
ply use the Extensions Manager, a similar util-
ity Apple has included as part of the standard
system software since System 7.5. Using this
control panel, you can determine if one of your
extensions is causing a problem. The secret to
effective use of the Extensions Manager is to
have a plan. First use the Extensions Manager
to save your current set. This set is usually
called My Settings, but you might want to
change the name via the Rename Set menu
choice from the File menu (you might find it
helpful to name the current set by date so you
know how long you have been using it) .
Second, use the set’s pop-up menu and
choose the System Base set, automatically
named for whatever version of the Mac OS you
have installed. Restart and see if the problem
still occurs. If everything runs smoothly, you
know that one of your extensions is the culprit.
Sometimes — ^for example, when you’re deal-
ing with a scanner or printer error — ^you have
to enable some nonsystem extensions to test
for the problem. If this is the case, duplicate
the Base Set and enable only those extensions
you need. Keep enabling extensions and
restarting until the problem recurs.
If you find a problem extension, make sure
you have the most current version — often the
company that makes the extension discovers
the problem and offers an update or patch.
You might also invest in a wonderful pro-
gram called Extension Overload (http://ww
.extensionoverload.com), which tells you
which extensions you have and what they do.
Q I love Outlook Express, but I can't get
it to import my information from Netscape.
I know this is supposed to work, but untill
can import my Netscape data, I cannot use
Outlook. What ami doing wrong?
Due to the way Microsoft imple-
mented its import function and the way
Netscape makes its information available,
you’ll need to employ a tricky little work-
around to get Netscape and Outlook Express
to jive together.
The technique is simple — ^just make
sure you have Netscape running when you
import information into Outlook Express.
With Netscape running, Outlook Express can
find and import your address book, email
messages, and other information. You
should only need to do this once.
Bookmark
Bonus
I n the June 2000 issue, we mentioned how to
use the same Bookmarks and/or Favorites in
both Netscape and Internet Explorer. We failed to
mention a wonderful little utility called Bookit that
does this for you. It allows you to create and
update all your links between different browsers.
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800-533-9005
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104
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800-808-6242
108
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503-274-2020
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www.fwb.com
415-345-4300
81
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615-255-0990
105
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800-937-3622
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425-882-8080
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10 East Yanonali Street, Santa Barbara CA 93101
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800-862-2526
61
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1 400 Lakeview Avenue, Anaheim CA 92807
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714-779-2772
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